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,princes ,street    ,foreword   ,,the   
subject of this volume is an address    
delivered by the ,author before the     
,world's ,conference on ,christian      
,fundamentals at ,philadelphia1 ,may    
#cj1 #aiai4  ,the reasons for preaching 
and teaching the ,second ,coming of our 
,lord ,jesus ,christ are manifold and   
each one worth while4  ,the ,author has 
contented himself with presenting a few 

as follows3  ,the ,second ,coming of our
 ,lord ,jesus ,christ is the one event  
most often recorded in ,holy ,scripture4
  ,it is bound up with every fundamental
 doctrine1 with every sublime promise   
and every exhortation to high1 to holy  
and practical ,christian living4  ,only 
at the ,second ,coming of our ,lord will
 redemption be complete and the blood of
 the cross be justified4  ,not till our 
,lord ,jesus ,christ comes the ,second  
time will the ,church be exalted into   
her true function of rulership over the 
world4  ,only at the ,second ,coming    
will the solemn and covenant promises of
 ,god to ,israel be fulfilled4  ,only at
 the ,second ,coming of the ,christ of  
,god will a government of everlasting   
righteousness and peace be established  
on the earth4  ,it is at the ,second    
,coming of ,christ alone that the earth 
will be delivered from the bondage of   
corruption and transformed into the     
paradise of ,god4  ,the ,coming of our  
,lord ,jesus ,christ ,,for ,his ,church 

is the most imminent event on the       
horizon of time4   ,i4 ,m4 ,h4   ,new   
,york1 #aiai4    ,contents   ,i4 ,,the  
,,second ,,coming ,,of ,,our ,,lord     
,,jesus ,,christ ,,is ,,the ,,one       
,,event ,,most ,,often ,,recorded ,,in  
,,holy ,,scripture  ,,ii4 ,,the ,,second
 ,,coming ,,of ,,our ,,lord ,,jesus     
,,christ ,,is ,,bound ,,up ,,with       
,,every ,,fundamental ,,doctrine1       
,,every ,,sublime ,,promise ,,and       
,,every ,,exhortation ,,to ,,high1 ,,to 
,,holy ,,and ,,practical ,,christian    
,,living  ,,iii4 ,,only ,,at ,,the      
,,coming ,,of ,,our ,,lord ,,jesus      
,,christ ,,will ,,redemption ,,be       
,,complete ,,and ,,the ,,blood ,,of     
,,the ,,cross ,,be ,,justified  ,,iv4   
,,not ,,till ,,our ,,lord ,,jesus       
,,christ ,,comes ,,the ,,second ,,time  
,,will ,,the ,,church ,,be ,,exalted    
,,into ,,her ,,true ,,function ,,of     
,,rulership ,,over ,,the ,,world  ,v4   
,,only ,,at ,,the ,,second ,,coming     
,,will ,,the ,,solemn ,,and ,,covenant  

,,promises ,,of ,,god ,,to ,,israel ,,be
 ,,fulfilled  ,,vi4 ,,only ,,at ,,the   
,,second ,,coming ,,of ,,the ,,christ   
,,of ,,god ,,will ,a ,,government ,,of  
,,everlasting ,,righteousness ,,and     
,,peace ,,be ,,established ,,upon ,,the 
,,earth  ,,vii4 ,,it ,,is ,,at ,,the    
,,second ,,coming ,,of ,,our ,,lord     
,,jesus ,,christ ,,that ,,the ,,earth   
,,will ,,be ,,delivered ,,from ,,the    
,,bondage ,,of ,,corruption ,,and       
,,transformed ,,into ,,the ,,paradise   
,,of ,,god  ,,viii4 ,,the ,,coming ,,of 
,,our ,,lord ,,jesus ,,christ ,,for     
,,his ,,church ,,is ,,the ,,most        
,,imminent ,,event ,,on ,,the ,,horizon 
,,of ,,time    ,i   ,the ,second ,coming
 of ,our ,lord ,jesus ,christ is the    
,one ,event ,most ,often ,recorded in   
,holy ,scripture   ,,it is recorded in  
type1 in figure1 in symbol1 in analogue1
 in parable1 in hyperbole and metaphor1 
in exalted song1 in noblest poetry and  
in rarest rhetoric4 ,it is set before us
 in dramatic and dynamic statement1 in  

high prophetic forecast1 in simple      
narrative1 close linked logic1 expanded 
doctrine1 divine exhortation and far    
-reaching appeal4  ,the first promise of
 the ,second ,coming was made in ,eden4 
,it was made in the promise given to the
 woman that her seed should bruise the  
serpent's head4 ,on the cross the       
serpent bruised the heel of the woman's 
seed1 but her seed did not bruise the   
serpent's head4 ,never was his head more
 uplifted and unbruised than now4 ,the  
promise of the bruising is of ,god and  
must be fulfilled4 ,the record of that  
fulfillment is to be found in the       
twentieth chapter of the book of the    
,revelation where our ,lord descends and
 in the plenitude of ,his power by the  
hand of an angel binds ,satan for a     
thousand years beneath ,his feet and the
 feet of ,his saints4 ,as the bruising  
of the serpent's head takes place at the
 ,second ,coming1 and the promise of the
 bruising is made in ,eden1 then the    
first promise of the ,coming is made in 

,eden2 and as you see rising above the  
figure of the fallen first man the      
figure of the ,second man1 you hear for 
the first time the story of the ,second 
,coming of the ,second man2 and thus the
 story and the doctrine of the ,second  
,coming begin with the very beginning of
 the ,book4  ,for three hundred years   
,enoch walked amid the slime1 the slush 
and the uprising tide of human iniquity 
in a ,god-hating and ,god-defying world4
 ,then one day ,god took him out of all 
the riot and wrong of it without dying  
into the heaven of ,his glory2 and the  
,apostle ,paul writing to the           
,corinthians of the ,second ,coming     
affirms there will be a generation who  
will continue alive till the ,lord      
comes2 and thus ,enoch is a type of that
 deathless generation and by so much a  
prophecy of the ,second ,coming4  ,for  
one hundred and twenty years ,noah      
preached righteousness to a world from  
which the death penalty had been        
removed1 a world surrendered to         

conscience 7and let it be well          
remembered conscience is not the gift of
 ,god nor evidence of grace but mark of 
fallen man1 the shadow of ,god's throne 
before which the accuse and excuse of   
the soul witness to human guilt71 a     
generation given over to unrestrained   
fallen nature2 a generation of murder1  
assassination1 violence1 war1 utter     
brutality1 sickening sensualism1 the    
invasion of fallen and lust-seeking     
angels1 rank spiritism1 diabolism and   
mocking laughter at ,god and the things 
of ,god4  ,suddenly1 without warning1   
,god called ,noah into the ark 7the     
building of which had awakened the      
derision of the revellers in sin and the
 would-be wise men of the hour7 shut the
 door and bolted him in4 ,at the end of 
seven ominous days in which the darksome
 clouds hung low and threatening1 the   
windows of heaven were opened1 the      
fountains of the deep broken up and the 
flood fell1 sweeping away all save ,noah
 and his family in the ark4 ,when the   

judgment waters had subsided ,noah and  
his family came forth to set up a new   
and distinct dispensation in the world4 
,seated yonder on the ,mount of ,olives 
in the shadow of the cross1 looking     
forward to ,his ,second ,coming and     
backward for an illustration that should
 forecast the times and leave no excuse 
for exegetical and interpretative       
theological blundering our ,lord said as
 it was in the days of ,noah so should  
it be when the ,son of man should come  
the ,second time4  ,without warning1 out
 of a world of increasing materialism1  
self -sufficiency1 boasting1 pride1     
violence1 war and multiplied peril1 a   
world that under the guise of general   
indifferentism and cultivated cynicism  
mocks at the things of ,god and denies  
we have a written1 final and sure       
revelation from ,him1 the ,lord will    
snatch away the genuine1 regenerated    
,church 7the dead raised1 the living    
changed7 and take them to ,himself1 into
 the place prepared4 ,for at least seven

 years spiritual blackness1 measureless 
woe and indescribable anguish will fall 
upon a ,devil-deceived and ,devil-ruled 
world4 ,then will the ,lord come with   
,his previously gathered ,church1       
execute judgment on the ungodly1 sweep  
away all iniquity and set up the new    
administration of righteousness and     
truth4 ,noah is therefore a figure1 a   
prophecy of the closing hours of this   
age and its climax in the ,second       
,coming of the ,lord4  ,one day ,lot    
went into ,sodom1 took office1 tried to 
reform the evil city1 succeeded in      
vexing his righteous1 but unspiritual   
soul with the filthy conversation of the
 wicked1 got down to the level of the   
natural man1 lost his testimony and     
seemed to his friends and intimates like
 a madman or the most excuselessly      
inconsistent trifler when he attempted  
to take up once more his damaged        
testimony4  ,then there was a night when
 ,god's angels came and snatched him out
 of the doomed city4 ,the next morning  

the fire of ,god fell and ,lot saved so 
as by fire looked on at the blaze and   
the burning of all his works of         
righteousness as wood hay and stubble1  
big in bulk but rejected of ,god4       
,looking forward to ,his ,second ,coming
 and backward for an illustration the   
,son of ,god declared as it was in the  
days of ,lot so should it be when the   
,son of man should come again4  ,there  
are good and righteous                  
,christians--righteous enough but wholly
 unspiritual who are seeking to make    
spotless town of a world ,god has judged
 and doomed1 failing to see the cross is
 not only the judgment of the           
individual1 but equally the judgment of 
the world2 that not only does the cross 
reveal the end of all flesh but the end 
in ,god's sight of that system of things
 which men call the world2 that on the  
cross the world is crucified to the     
,christian and the ,christian to the    
world2 and failing to see this1 failing 
to get the mind of ,god are daily       

descending to the plane of the natural  
man1 are losing and in many cases       
deliberately setting aside the testimony
 once for all delivered to the saints4  
,without warning1 they will be snatched 
away to meet a descending ,lord 7if they
 be real and regenerated ,christians7   
and this alone because their faith be it
 never so small holds them securely in  
the bonds of the covenant4 ,after that  
the ,lord will be revealed in flaming   
fire to execute judgment on the world   
and all the works of misguided social   
reformers because these works are built1
 not upon the righteousness of ,god1 but
 the righteousness of man4  ,according  
to the ,word of the ,lord ,himself      
therefore ,lot is a picture and prophecy
 of the closing hours of the present age
 with its climax the ,coming and        
,appearing of the ,lord4  ,after        
,abraham had typically offered up his   
son on ,mount ,moriah and typically     
received him from the dead on the third 
day the son for a number of chapters in 

the record disappears from view4 ,then  
,abraham the father sends his servant   
,eliezer into a far country to get a    
bride for this now invisible son4       
,eliezer meets the intended bride at a  
well from whence she is drawing water1  
goes with her into her brother's house1 
takes out a pack of precious things sent
 from the father in the name of the son1
 displays them to her and invites her to
 become the bride of the son4 ,she      
consents4 ,the servant leads her forth4 
,on the way he talks to her of the      
promised bridegroom4 ,suddenly she      
beholds him coming to meet her4 ,he     
receives her1 takes her into his        
prepared tent and she becomes his wife4 
,on the same mount nearly two thousand  
years later ,god the ,father offered up 
,his only begotten ,son4 ,on the third  
day ,he raised ,him from the dead4 ,for 
two thousand years ,he has disappeared  
from view4 ,the ,father has sent forth  
the ,spirit to obtain a bride for ,his  
,son4 ,he meets her at the ,gospel well 

from whence we draw the waters of       
salvation4 ,he is calling her through   
individual selection that she may become
 the corporate bride4 ,he has brought   
spiritual gifts which ,he seeks to      
display in all her assemblies4 ,he is   
endeavouring to lead her along the      
highway of time and to speak to her in  
the heaven speech of the ,coming        
,bridegroom4 ,suddenly the ,lord will   
come to meet her and take her into the  
place prepared and keep her for the     
marriage hour4 ,in this simple story the
 analogue finds its prophetic climax in 
the ,second ,coming of our ,lord4       
,jacob fled from his home1 the brother  
he had outwitted and the father whom he 
had deceived4 ,as night drew on footsore
 and weary he cast himself upon the     
plain with a stone for his pillow4      
,visions came to him in the night4 ,a   
ladder of gold reached from earth to    
heaven4 ,at the top of it was a host of 
angels and the ,lord ,himself in glory4 
,the ,lord spoke to him and assured him 

he and his posterity should have the    
land on which he was lying for an       
everlasting possession4 ,it was a       
confirmation of the oath to and the     
covenant with ,abraham and ,isaac4 ,as  
the covenant can find its fulfillment   
only at the actual ,second ,coming of   
our ,lord as the ,god of ,jacob1 this   
vision is the prophetic anticipation of 
that hour and the heaven-proclaimed     
assurance the ,lord is coming a ,second 
time4  ,joseph was sent by his father to
 his brethren4 ,they despised and       
rejected him4 ,they cast him into the   
pit of death4 ,he was taken out alive4  
,he was carried away into a far         
country--even into ,egypt4 ,there he was
 exalted to become co-ruler with        
,pharaoh4 ,in the hour of famine he     
became the bread giver1 the saviour of a
 hungry world4 ,at the same time he got 
a ,gentile bride4 ,in the hour when     
tribulation and sorrow came upon his    
brethren he revealed himself to them the
 second time and was owned and          

acknowledged by them4 ,with his wife he 
came in his chariot of kingly glory and 
established his father and his brethren 
in the promised land of ,goshen4  ,the  
application is so simple it applies     
itself4  ,god the ,father sent ,his ,son
 to ,his brethren in the flesh4 ,they   
despised and rejected ,him4 ,they put   
,him in the place of death4 ,he was     
raised up alive4 ,he has gone into a far
 country--even into heaven itself4 ,he  
is there now as one who has been exiled 
from earth4 ,he has been exalted to the 
throne of ,his ,father4 ,for two        
thousand years of spiritual famine and  
hunger in the world ,he has been the    
giver of the bread of life1 the saviour 
of men4 ,during these years of ,his     
exile ,he has been obtaining a bride    
from among the ,gentiles--that is the   
,church4 ,when the hour of tribulation  
and anguish shall come upon ,his        
brethren in the flesh1 even as ,he      
,himself has warned1 ,he will appear in 
,his glory1 the scales will fall from   

their eyes as they did from ,paul and   
they will own ,him as their ,messiah and
 ,lord1 the ,holy ,one of ,israel4 ,with
 ,his ,church in associate power and    
glory ,he will deliver them and place   
them forever in the promised land--the  
land of their fathers4  ,no sooner has  
,moses with the host of ,israel crossed 
dry shod through the divided waters of  
the ,red ,sea than he lifts up his voice
 and sings1 not of the first1 but the   
,second ,coming of the ,lord4 ,he sings 
of ,him as a man of war1 as the head of 
celestial armies1 coming to execute     
judgment1 overthrow iniquity and        
establish ,his reign and rule of        
righteousness4  ,when you open the      
historic pages of the ,bible1 along the 
seemingly driest and coldest paragraphs 
you may if you will behold the wheels of
 the ,king's chariot flashing by and    
catch a gleam of ,his radiant features1 
now as the man of war in ,david1 and    
then as the ,prince of peace in         
,solomon4  ,yonder1 under the far-away  

stars1 ,job sat at his tent door and as 
he meditated on the brevity and vanity  
of human life1 its hopes deferred that  
make the heart sick1 the sound of the   
clods as they fall upon the coffin lid1 
he asked the question that has quivered 
down the ages--,if a man die1 shall he  
live again8  ,he answers his own        
question4 ,he says he knows he will die4
 ,he knows his soul will go into the    
underworld of the dead4 ,his body will  
be laid away in the dust4 ,it will      
become nothing more than a bundle of    
skin and bones4 ,he knows1 also1 this   
bundle of skin and bones is the work of 
,god's hand4 ,the ,lord will have       
respect to ,his work4 ,he will remember 
,he wrought it4 ,at a given time ,he    
will call to ,job and ,job will answer2 
then in anticipation of the supreme     
moment he cries out exultantly he knows 
his redeemer liveth2 that he shall stand
 in the latter day upon the earth and   
covered with his own flesh once more    
shall see his incarnate ,god4  ,thus in 

those wondrous days of the long ago ,job
 caught the shining of the morning star1
 heard the trumpet of the first         
resurrection and caught the vision of   
the ,second ,coming of his ,lord4       
,david sweeps his fingers across the    
answering chords of his golden harp and 
sings of that hour when the ,lord shall 
come in ,his glory2 when the trees of   
the wood shall clap their hands2 when   
the mountains shall flow down at ,his   
presence1 the waves of the sea fling    
their hallelujahs on the resounding     
shore2 and when the earth shall own the 
,lord is coming1 coming not the first   
time to die1 but the ,second time as the
 risen one to live and reign and with   
none to dispute ,him4  ,in the ,song of 
,songs we who believe are by nature     
before ,god as black and uncomely as the
 sun-burned tents of ,kedar1 but by     
grace in ,god's sight as beautiful as   
the ,tyre-woven curtains of ,solomon4   
,the breath of the spring time is in the
 air4 ,the voice of the turtle dove is  

to be heard in the land4 ,it is the time
 of love and for hearts to find their   
mates4 ,the leaves of the fig tree of   
,israel are beginning to put forth4 ,the
 seeds of hope sown in the graves of the
 ,christian dead and watered with tears 
from the anguish of the living are ready
 to bud and blossom forth in the full   
flower of their assured immortality4    
,the voice of the ,bridegroom may be    
heard saying to the ,church3 ,come away 
my beloved4 ,come thou rose of ,sharon  
and thou lily of the valley1 and        
presently we see the ,bridegroom        
,himself descending and the ,church     
going up out of the wilderness leaning  
on the arm of her ,beloved4  ,so we may 
learn and quickly if we will1 that the  
,song of ,songs which is ,solomon's is  
the celebration of the nuptial hour when
 our ,lord shall come the ,second time  
to take ,his affianced ,church to       
,himself and make her the heavenly bride
 of ,his unfolding and unfading glory4  
,the prophet ,isaiah hears the seraphs  

sing their holy1 holy1 holy is the ,lord
 of hosts2 the whole earth is full of   
his glory till the posts of the door are
 moved at the wonder of the song4 ,he   
sees the glory of the ,coming of the    
,lord4 ,he tells us the ,lord is coming 
with fire and with ,his chariots like a 
whirlwind1 to render ,his anger with    
fury1 and ,his rebuke with flames of    
fire4  ,jeremiah announces the ,lord is 
coming the ,second time4 ,when ,he comes
 ,he will make ,jerusalem the throne of 
,his glory4 ,unto it shall be the       
gathering of the nations4 ,they shall   
gather unto it in the name of the ,lord1
 and neither shall they walk any more   
after the imaginations of their evil    
heart4  ,ezekiel beholds the ,lord      
seated on a throne high and lifted up4  
,he sees ,him coming out of the purple  
dawning of the east4 ,he restores       
,jerusalem4 ,he builds the temple till  
the shining spendour of it shall fill   
the promised land2 and in a voice as the
 sound of many waters ,he says this     

temple shall be the place for the soles 
of ,his feet and thus rebukes those who 
try to keep ,him from dwelling bodily in
 the land as though forsooth ,he should 
lose ,his heavenliness by so doing1     
forgetting that earth is ,his rightful  
home and is to be ,his eternal dwelling 
place4 ,yea and ,amen when ,he comes to 
,his own again ,he shall dwell in the   
midst of ,his ransomed forever4 ,and the
 nations of the earth as they ascend to 
the heights of ,jerusalem to behold ,his
 glory and to worship ,him in ,his holy 
temple as they catch the first glimpse  
of the city1 its gardens like unto the  
garden of the ,lord1 the temple with its
 shekinah cloud by day and the flaming  
fire by night that shall make it to be  
no more night but day1 shall cry out1   
not ,jerusalem1 but ,yaveh ,shamma--the 
,lord is there4 ,and from henceforth    
this shall be the name of the city4     
,daniel has visions in the night4 ,he   
beholds the ,lord as the ,son of man1 as
 eternal judge and king of all the      

earth4 ,he sees ,him coming to the      
,father to receive ,his title deeds and 
then descending in clouds of glory to   
establish the kingdom that shall never  
pass away4  ,from ,hosea to ,malachi the
 ,minor ,prophets echo with the         
declaration the ,lord is coming and     
always this coming is the ,second4      
,hosea foresees ,israel will forsake the
 ,lord and for many days be as a dead   
man out of sight and forgotten4 ,but in 
the latter times when the ,lord ,himself
 shall return ,israel will awaken and   
own ,him as ,lord and king4  ,joel tells
 us the armies of the world league shall
 be gathered against ,jerusalem and     
under their godless1 ,devil-incarnate   
head shall defy the ,lord of hosts2 that
 the ,lord will come1 overthrow them    
with a great slaughter and deliver the  
holy city from the treading down of the 
,gentiles forever4  ,in ,amos the ,lord 
is coming to restore the kingdom to     
,israel and set up and establish the    
throne of ,david4  ,obadiah warns us of 

the day of the ,lord1 the day that is   
introduced by the ,second ,coming of the
 ,lord4  ,joel teaches us under the     
madness and folly of ,gentile rule      
ploughshares are to be beaten into      
swords and pruning hooks into spears and
 the nations are to give themselves to  
war and all the horror and desolation of
 it4 ,but this ,scripture is never      
quoted by those who preach peace where  
there can be no peace4 ,always they     
quote ,micah who tells us the swords    
will be beaten into ploughshares1 the   
spears into pruning hooks and the       
nations shall learn war no more4  ,the  
two prophets seem to stand in absolute  
opposition to each other4  ,they do not4
  ,joel tells us what will happen just  
before the ,lord comes4  ,micah tells us
 what will take place after the ,lord   
comes4  ,in ,joel the ,lord will come1  
meet the armies of the ,league in the   
valley of decision1 the valley of       
,jehoshaphat1 and overthrow them2 then  
will the implements of war be beaten    

into the implements of peace and war be 
at an end forever4  ,micah announces the
 end of war and the beginning of lasting
 peace will come as the consequence of  
the ,lord's appearing in glory and not  
till ,he does so appear4  ,nahum        
proclaims the ,second ,coming4 ,the     
,lord's way shall be in the whirlwind   
and the storm1 the clouds shall be the  
dust of ,his feet1 the mountains shall  
quake at ,him1 the hills shall melt and 
the very earth burn at ,his presence4   
,in ,habakkuk the ,spirit carries human 
language to its loftiest height till it 
glows on peaks of thought sublime4  ,the
 prophet sees the ,lord coming the      
,second time4 ,his brightness is as the 
shining light4 ,in ,his hands once      
pierced for such as we is the hiding of 
,his power4 ,pestilence and burning     
coals are ,his vanguard4 ,he stands and 
measures the earth4 ,he drives asunder  
the nations4 ,the everlasting mountains 
are scattered4 ,the perpetual hills bow 
before ,him and the inhabitants of the  

onlooking worlds lift up their voices   
and sing3 ,his ways are everlasting4    
,zephaniah proclaims the ,second        
,coming4  ,the ,lord will come and smite
 the world league in the pitifulness of 
its gathering and the pigminess of its  
might4 ,he will pour forth ,his         
indignation and fierce anger upon all   
the exaltation and pride of man4 ,he    
will devour the earth with the fire of  
,his jealousy1 deliver ,jerusalem1 turn 
to the people the pure speech of the old
 ,hebraic tongue1 bid ,zion to sing1    
,israel to shout and calling ,jerusalem 
her daughter1 bid her to rejoice4 ,he   
will overthrow the false ,christ and as 
the true ,messiah will ,himself dwell in
 the midst of ,jerusalem forevermore4   
,haggai declares the ,lord will come and
 will shake all nations so that only the
 things which are of ,god may remain4   
,zechariah tells us in terms so plain1  
so clear no one need misunderstand nor  
be in darkness for a moment that the    
,lord is coming the ,second time4  ,he  

will come with all ,his saints4 ,his    
feet shall stand in that day on the     
,mount of ,olives2 and that no false    
teacher nor wilful perverter of the     
truth about the reality of the ,lord's  
bodily presence on the earth at that    
time may have even the shadow of a      
shadow to rest on1 and as a proof that  
this coming is not spiritual but actual 
and the testimony of ,his very feet     
under the most pronounced topographical 
conditions1 the prophet says the mount  
on which those blessed and real feet    
shall descend is not only on the ,mount 
of ,olives1 but that ,mount of ,olives1 
which is before ,jerusalem on the east4 
,at the touch of the ,lord's feet this  
wondrous and sacred ,mount of ,olives   
will split in twain4 ,one half of it    
will roll like a wave northward4 ,the   
other half will roll to the south4 ,a   
great valley will be formed4 ,that      
valley is named in ,scripture1 but never
 has been found on any map and cannot be
 found in ,palestine to-day4 ,it is the 

valley of ,jehoshaphat1 the valley of   
decision1 the valley of judgment of the 
nations4 ,and into this valley pell-mell
 shall rush the ,antichrist-led and     
,devil-deceived armies of the league of 
ten nations to find their overthrow at  
the hand of the ,lord and the           
inauguration of that hour when the once 
despised and crucified ,christ shall be 
the revealed and recognized ,god of the 
whole earth2 when there shall be one    
,lord and ,his name one--even that name 
which is above every name whether in    
heaven or on earth--the name of ,jesus4 
,malachi closes the book of the ,old    
,testament4 ,he beholds our ,lord ,jesus
 ,christ coming the ,second time4 ,he   
sees ,him coming as the rising sun      
filling the heavens and flooding the    
earth with the benediction of ,his      
majesty and might4  ,from ,malachi to   
the ,new ,testament we pass over four   
hundred years of prophetic silence and  
then we are in the book of the ,gospel  
according to ,matthew4  ,here we are    

face to face with the night of nights4  
,the stars like silver squadrons sail   
close to the waiting earth4 ,the angels 
fling down their wreath of natal song   
and the virgin mother cradles upon her  
white and unsullied breast the ,christ  
of ,god4  ,we follow ,him in the days of
 ,his unfolding ministry4 ,every time   
,he touches the earth ,his footsteps    
leave a benediction4 ,each time ,he     
breathes the air ,he sweetens it4 ,his  
low and modulated voice starts a note of
 music whose rhythmic accents have not  
done sounding and whose heavenly harmony
 outsings the discords of earth4 ,he    
looks daylight into blind eyes4 ,he     
cools the fever pulse to quiet beating4 
,he makes the lame man to leap as a     
hart4 ,he hushes the storm on ,galilee  
till the ruffled1 windswept waters are  
as calm and peaceful as a babe upon its 
mother's breast4 ,with a word ,he raises
 the wept -for dead4 ,everywhere and at 
all times ,his miracles are wrought1 not
 merely that ,he may do good and bring  

needed blessings as ,he passes by1 but  
as the credentials and sign warrant of  
the truthfulness of ,his claim that ,he 
is ,son of ,god1 ,god the ,son1 the     
,anointed of the ,lord and ,israel's    
king4  ,but in all ,his ministry of hand
 or word never does ,he speak save      
incidentally of ,his first coming4      
,always and in fullest degree ,he speaks
 of ,his ,second ,coming4 ,seated upon  
the ,mount of ,olives ,he affirms1 after
 the cross shall have slain and stained 
,him and the grave shall have briefly   
held ,him ,he will come again2 but1 just
 before ,he comes it will be as it was  
in the days of ,noah--a time of         
materialism1 sensualism1 the culture of 
self-consciousness1 an hour of boasting1
 pride1 lawlessness and war2 and when   
,he is revealed it will be as with the  
driving judgment of the flood4  ,in the 
twenty-fifth chapter of ,matthew and the
 first part of the chapter ,he declares 
,he is coming as the bridegroom         
comes--seeking the marriage hour of his 

bride4  ,in the last part of the chapter
 and as the climax of ,his bridegroom   
coming ,he will appear as the king of   
glory and the judge of the living       
nations4  ,when ,he stands before ,his  
guilty judges and their suborned        
witnesses and while they mock and deride
 ,him ,he breaks ,his hitherto amazing  
silence not to demonstrate to them the  
truth of ,his incarnation nor the proof 
of ,his preexistence1 but in calm and   
measured utterance to tell them that    
after they shall have put ,him to death 
,he will come the ,second time2 and they
 shall see ,him descending from heaven  
seated upon the cloud of shekinal glory 
and with the power of ,god4  ,in ,mark  
,he is the householder who goes into a  
far country1 gives to each of ,his      
servants a work to do1 puts the porter  
on guard to watch the door of the house 
and announces that no one in heaven nor 
on earth knows when ,he will return4 ,he
 will return1 ,he will come the ,second 
time4 ,it will be in one of the four    

watches of the spiritual night4 ,it may 
be at even1 it may be at midnight1 it   
may be at cockcrowing and it may be in  
the morning4 ,because it is certain ,he 
will come1 but uncertain when ,he will  
come1 each one who claims to be ,his    
servant is under bond to watch4 ,the    
whole household must be in the attitude 
of watching1 of readiness and           
expectation2 and ,his word of           
exhortation and warning to ,his ,church 
is3  ,what ,i say unto you1 ,i say unto 
all--watch4  ,in ,luke ,he is the       
nobleman who goes into a far country to 
get the title deeds of ,his kingdom and 
return4 ,when ,he returns ,he comes     
first to ,his servants1 gathers them to 
,himself and rewards them4 ,after that  
with them ,he executes judgment on ,his 
enemies and then sets up ,his kingdom4  
,in the ,gospel of ,john ,he eats with  
,his disciples the last and memorial    
supper4 ,he goes out with them1 bids    
them lift their glances to the wide1    
extended sky where the jewelry of the   

night as the scattered largess of a king
 burns in the fire of opal1 the purple  
and violet of amethyst and the white    
splendour of uncounted diamonds4 ,he    
assures them these gleaming things are  
no fiction fire -flies of gaseous worlds
 in the making1 but illuminated dwelling
 places in ,his ,father's house4 ,he is 
going thither4 ,he will ascend into that
 congeries of inhabited worlds and will 
prepare a place for them1 a glorious    
palace home befitting their high estate2
 when all is ready ,he will come back   
and receive them in corporate unity to  
,himself4  ,his words are simple1 but   
the simplicity is the simplicity of     
light and every accent is as the touch  
of peace to troubled hearts2 for this is
 what ,he said3  ,in my ,father's house 
are many mansions3 if it were not so1 ,i
 would have told you4 ,i go to prepare a
 place for you4  ,and if ,i go and      
prepare a place for you1 ,i will come   
again1 and receive you unto myself2 that
 where ,i am1 there ye may be also4  ,in

 the book of ,acts1 in the first chapter
 you have a scene no artist has really  
ever painted1 no writer ever fairly     
portrayed and no mortal tongue can      
fittingly describe4  ,our ,lord is going
 up from the ,mount of ,olives4 ,he is  
going up from the midst of ,his         
disciples4 ,he is going heavenward4 ,the
 disciples watch ,him as ,he ascends4   
,he enters a cloud4 ,do not1 ,i beseech 
you1 imagine for a moment this cloud is 
a fog bank1 a mass of watery mist and   
vapour2 it is the shekinal cloud which  
once covered the tabernacle in the      
wilderness and was the vehicle of ,his  
presence when ,israel in that far time  
marched on their way to the promised    
land4 ,it is ,his chariot of state4 ,in 
this chariot sent to meet ,him ,he      
passes between the onlooking worlds ever
 higher and higher till at last ,he     
takes ,his seat upon the throne of the  
,highest at the right hand of the       
invisible majesty4  ,then1 as through   
the dimness of their tears the disciples

 watch ,him disappear1 they hear a voice
 which says to them3  ,ye men of        
,galilee1 why stand ye gazing up into   
heaven8 ,this same ,jesus1 which is     
taken up from you into heaven1 shall so 
come in like manner as ye have seen him 
go into heaven4  ,this same ,jesus4     
,mark that well6  ,the ,jesus who on the
 ,sunday night of ,his resurrection did 
meet these disciples in the upper room  
and said to them as they shrank back    
into a frozen silence of hope and fear3 
,peace be unto you4  ,why are ye        
troubled8  ,and why do thoughts arise in
 your hearts8  ,behold my hands and my  
feet1 that it is ,i myself3 handle me   
and see2 for a spirit hath not flesh and
 bones1 as ye see me have4  ,still these
 disciples were afraid1 afraid it could 
not be true4  ,then ,he showed them ,his
 hands and ,his feet that they might see
 where the nails had gone in1 torn      
through the flesh and left eternal      
wounds as the chevrons of glory4  ,and  
still the silence of hope mingled with  

fear4  ,then he said3  ,have ye here any
 meat8  ,and they gave ,him a piece of a
 broiled fish1 and of an honeycomb4     
,and ,he took and did eat before them4  
,he had said to them ,he was flesh and  
bones1 not flesh and blood4  ,he was not
 flesh and blood because in the         
sin-offering all the blood must be      
poured out at the bottom of the altar1  
and ,he was ,himself the antitypical    
sin-offering4 ,he had poured out ,his   
blood4 ,it had run as a living stream   
from every vein and artery4  ,because   
,he was the sin-offering in death1 in   
resurrection ,he became for the first   
time a priest--high priest after the    
order1 not of ,aaron1 but ,melchisedec4 
,that very morning as the high priest   
,he had ascended to heaven1 within the  
vail1 and sprinkled ,his redeeming blood
 7how is not revealed7 on the eternal   
throne1 changing it from the throne of  
judgment to a throne of grace4 ,that    
night ,he stood before them ,he was     
their high priest1 not of earth1 but    

heaven4 ,he breathed upon them1 imparted
 to them the ,holy ,spirit--the         
,comforter--linking them to ,his        
immortal body4 ,he remained with them1  
going and coming1 during forty days1    
operating with them officially by and   
through the ,holy ,spirit as ,his unseen
 executive2 for we are told that1 until 
the day he was taken up he through the  
,holy ,ghost had given commandments unto
 the apostles2 and then1 finally1 as    
this scene in the book of ,acts shows   
us1 ascended to ,his high-priestly      
function and unceasing service of       
intercession4  ,he is seated in heaven  
now1 seated there as the same ,jesus who
 met ,his disciples that first ,sunday  
night1 the same ,jesus who ascended out 
of their midst from ,olivet4 ,this same 
,jesus6 ,the same not only in realistic1
 human body1 but the same in character1 
full of the same measureless compassion 
and grace as when ,he sat on the well   
curb in ,samaria and though thirsting as
 a real man for real water offered to   

give to the sinful woman who by divine  
and eternal ordination met him there1   
the water that should be in her as a    
well of water springing up into         
everlasting life4  ,this same ,jesus is 
coming again1 not a phantom1 not an     
impalpable spirit1 not a ghost ,christ1 
but a ,christ who is a real man of real 
flesh and real bones4  ,this is the     
key-note of the book of ,acts4  ,he who 
died for men1 who has sanctioned the    
,holy ,spirit to operate in ,his name1  
speak in ,his name1 reveal to us the    
things that are ,his and show us things 
to come concerning ,him1 ,he is coming  
again1 coming not only as very ,god1 the
 ,holy ,one of ,israel1 ,he who has been
 exalted to be both ,lord and ,christ1  
but as this loving1 tender1             
compassionate ,jesus1 and in a body that
 may be seen and handled--a body of     
flesh and bones4  ,in ,romans we have   
the promise the ,lord is coming to      
bruise ,satan under ,his feet and the   
feet of ,his saints2 and according to   

the calendar of heaven and the way in   
which they measure time there this great
 event must come to pass1 as it is      
written1 shortly4  ,in ,first           
,corinthians the ,lord is coming to     
raise the dead who shall be ,his at his 
coming4  ,in ,second ,corinthians ,he is
 coming to transfigure the living who   
believe in ,him and thus clothe them    
with their house from heaven1 give them 
the body that shall be the handiwork of 
,god and not man4  ,in ,philippians our 
citizenship is in a country which is in 
heaven from whence we are to look for a 
,saviour1 even the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1
 who shall change this body of our      
mortal humiliation that it may be       
fashioned like unto ,his immortal and   
glorious body1 a change which ,he will  
effectuate by that mighty power         
according to which ,he is able to subdue
 all things unto ,himself4  ,in         
,colossians our life is hid with ,christ
 in ,god1 a double environment of       
security1 and when ,christ who is our   

life shall appear1 we shall appear with 
,him also in glory4  ,in the epistles to
 the ,thessalonians each chapter closes 
with a testimony to the ,second ,coming4
  ,in the first epistle in the first    
chapter the ,apostle commends the       
,thessalonian ,church because they had  
turned to ,god from idols to serve the  
living and true ,god and to wait for    
,his ,son from heaven4 ,from the        
beginning the ,apostle ,paul taught the 
new converts the next possible event    
might be the ,coming of that ,lord whom 
he had declared had been sacrificed for 
them1 was now risen and in heaven4 ,this
 was the one supreme thing for which    
they were to be in readiness every      
day--the ,second ,coming of our ,lord   
,jesus ,christ4  ,in the second chapter 
he assures the ,thessalonians he will   
meet them in the presence of the ,lord  
at ,his ,coming2 when ,he comes and they
 are all gathered before ,him1 saved    
through the ,gospel ,paul has preached  
to them in the demonstration of the     

,spirit and power1 they will be the     
guarantee and occasion of the crown he  
shall receive4  ,in the third chapter he
 exhorts them to increase and abound in 
love to one another that their hearts   
may be established unblameable in       
holiness before the ,lord when ,he shall
 come the ,second time with all ,his    
saints4  ,in the fourth chapter he      
announces as a special revelation from  
the ,lord that the ,lord ,himself is    
coming to awaken those whom ,he has put 
to sleep in ,his name4 ,he will descend 
from heaven with a shout1 with the voice
 of the archangel and the trump of ,god4
 ,the dead in ,him shall rise first1    
then we who are alive and remain shall  
be caught up with them in clouds to meet
 the ,lord in the air2 so shall we ever 
be with the ,lord and with one another4 
,in the fifth chapter the ,coming of the
 ,lord for ,his saints as just noted in 
the fourth and preceding chapter will   
bring in the day of the ,lord2 and we   
further learn this coming for the saints

 not only precedes the day of the ,lord1
 but as the introduction to it will be  
as secret1 sudden and unknown to the    
world as is in general the coming of a  
thief4  ,in the second epistle1 in the  
first chapter the ,lord is seen coming  
with all ,his saints to execute judgment
 on the ungodly and the unbelieving4    
,in the second chapter we learn the     
word1 ,rapture1 so often given as the   
name and title for the translation of   
the ,church to meet the ,lord1 while it 
may be a deducible truth and            
exegetically1 or1 rather philologically 
sustained1 is not the ,holy ,ghost      
title4 ,the true and ,scriptural title  
is3 ,our gathering together unto ,him4  
,in this chapter we learn also when the 
,church has been gathered to the ,lord  
in heaven the man of sin1 the           
,antichrist will be revealed2 then will 
the ,lord appear in glory1 overthrow him
 and his league of nations and set up   
the heaven-ordained kingdom of          
righteousness and peace4  ,in the third 

chapter the ,apostle prays the ,lord may
 direct their hearts into the love of   
,god and into--patient waiting for      
,christ4  ,in the ,first ,epistle to the
 ,thessalonians the ,lord comes ,,for   
,his ,church4  ,in the ,second ,epistle 
to the ,thessalonians ,he comes ,,with  
,his ,church4  ,in ,first ,timothy ,he  
is coming that ,he may be shown forth as
 the blessed and only ,potentate1 the   
,king of kings1 and ,lord of lords4  ,in
 ,second ,timothy ,he is coming to judge
 the quick and the dead and to give     
reward to all those who love ,his       
appearing4  ,titus gives us the inspired
 and official title of the ,coming of   
our ,lord ,jesus ,christ as1 ,that      
,blessed ,hope4  ,in ,hebrews we see    
this age is the antitypical ,day of     
,atonement2 just as at the close of the 
day in ,israel the people were waiting  
for the man who led away the scapegoat  
into the wilderness to come back without
 it as evidence their typical redemption
 was complete and secure for another    

year2 just so our ,lord ,jesus ,christ  
having appeared in the end of the age to
 put away sin by the sacrifice of       
,himself1 reconcile the world to ,god   
and bring in the day of grace and       
salvation1 to them that look for ,him   
shall ,he come the second time1 without 
sin1 unto salvation2 that is1 ,he will  
come back not as the sin offering1 but  
as the triumphant ,redeemer and as      
witness that our redemption will then be
 completed by ,him in the immortal      
bodies ,he shall give us4  ,james       
testifies that in the closing hours of  
this age ,capital and ,labour will look 
at each other with wrinkled brows1      
clenched hands and nervous1 impatient   
expectation4  ,he exhorts the ,christian
 labourer to be patient because1 as he  
says1 the ,coming of the ,lord draweth  
nigh1 is so near1 so imminent ,he       
standeth as a judge--verily at the      
door--and ready to intervene4  ,in the  
,first ,epistle of ,peter the ,lord is  
coming to justify the faith of ,his     

elect4  ,in the ,second ,epistle ,he is 
coming to bring in the new heavens and  
the new earth4  ,in the ,first ,epistle 
of ,john we who believe are sons of     
,god4 ,it is not yet manifested to the  
world what we really are1 nor what we   
shall be2 but we know when ,he shall    
appear we shall be like ,him for we     
shall see ,him as ,he is4 ,when ,he     
shines out we shall shine out with ,him4
  ,we are told every one who has this   
hope in him1 purifieth himself even as  
he is pure4  ,and thus in this special  
fashion the ,holy ,spirit affirms the   
,second ,coming of our ,lord ,jesus     
,christ is not only the climacteric of  
our avouchment as sons of ,god1 but1    
when held as a hope in the heart1 will  
keep us pure and clean as the ,holy     
,christ ,himself4  ,in the ,second      
,epistle of ,john we are warned false   
teachers will abound2 teachers who shall
 deny the eternal incarnation of the    
,son of ,god4 ,they will deny ,he is    
coming the ,second time2 but1 above all1

 they will deny ,he could possibly come 
in the flesh4  ,the ,apostle            
unhesitatingly affirms those who hold   
and teach this falsehood are nothing    
less than antichrists2 and he warns us  
as faithful followers of the true       
,christ not to receive them into our    
houses1 nor bid them ,godspeed4  ,jude  
is the smallest1 that is to say1 the    
shortest1 of all the epistles4 ,it is a 
clasp between the ,old and the ,new     
,testaments4  ,jude tells us ,enoch the 
seventh man who lived on the earth      
testified1 not of the first1 but the    
,second ,coming1 saying3  ,behold1 the  
,lord cometh with ten thousands of his  
saints4  ,then we find ourselves in the 
,revelation4  ,this is the book of the  
,consummation4  ,the supreme subject is 
the ,second ,coming4  ,there are        
twenty-two chapters4  ,each of the      
chapters portrays conditions and        
circumstances leading up to the great   
climax--the ,second ,coming and the     
immense and measureless                 

consequences--the millennial reign and  
the eternal state4  ,the book is like   
the roof of a great cathedral1 like the 
interior of the roof1 groined and       
panelled--each panel a chapter4  ,it is 
like the ceiling of the ,sistine ,chapel
 in which1 however1 may be found figures
 and forms such as ,michel ,angelo never
 drew nor such even as his imperial and 
suggestive mind could conceive4  ,you   
will find in these chapters the figures 
of wild beasts1 the dragon1 fallen      
angels1 fiends from the pit1 that old   
,serpent called the ,devil and ,satan4  
,if you will read and listen you will   
hear the blast of trumpets1 the breaking
 of vials1 the sounds of woe1 the tramp 
of marching feet1 the clash of battle1  
fire falling out of the heavens1 trees  
and grass in flame1 the waves of the sea
 turned to blood1 fountains and streams 
become as wormwood and gall1 the sun as 
black as a starless midnight1 the moon  
hanging in the lowering heavens like a  
clot of blood1 earthquakes1 the scarlet 

tongues of outpouring volcanoes1        
thunderings and lightnings1 all manner  
of wickedness and pervading sin1 a world
 quivering as a ship in the storm1 the  
bending heavens as though unbolted and  
insecure1 all foundations apparently    
shattered and the universe itself as    
though rushing forward to its funeral   
pyre4  ,heaven opens and the ,lord comes
 forth riding a white horse1 followed by
 armies on white horses1 the horses the 
symbols of ,his power1 each hoof beat as
 it smites the slant of heaven the sound
 of swift descending judgment4  ,on the 
,lord's head are many crowns4  ,he is   
wrapped in a garment dyed in blood4     
,his eyes are as a flame of fire4 ,his  
glances penetrate to the secret intents 
and purposes of the heart4 ,they get    
behind every cloak of deception and     
every pretense4 ,all the spotted        
nakedness of interior and intensive sin 
is revealed4 ,nothing remains in shadow1
 everything is illuminated to bareness1 
and the searching light of ,his looks   

goes through every fibre of being4  ,he 
is coming to reign and rule4  ,all the  
things the chapters record have been    
driving us to look forward to that2 the 
woe1 the anguish and the hell on earth  
have been pleading and crying out for a 
master to master and put an end to the  
cataclysms of catastrophic iniquity2 the
 very nature of things has been         
testifying that ,he must come4  ,he is  
responding to the demand that lies in   
the nature of things4  ,he is coming to 
reign and rule as a king4 ,he is not    
coming with an olive branch in one hand 
and a cooing dove on ,his shoulder4     
,nay6  ,he is coming with a rod of iron4
 ,he is coming to trample all opposition
 beneath ,his feet1 put down all rule   
and authority1 break to pieces and      
shatter as a potter's vessel the pride  
of nations and the self-exaltation of   
man4  ,he is coming to establish peace1 
but not by means of compromise1 by      
gentle and persuasive ways1 but by war  
and as a man of war1 as the man who is  

very ,god and judge omnipotent4  ,the   
book closes with the thrice repeated    
announcement from the ,lord ,himself3   
,behold1 ,i am coming quickly4  ,this is
 the last utterance of the ,lord from   
heaven4  ,to this the ,church replies   
with its last recorded prayer3  ,amen1  
even so1 come1 ,lord ,jesus4  ,when you 
close the book you feel the next thing  
is--the ,coming of the ,lord4  ,if the  
value of a statement or doctrine is to  
be measured by the number of times      
repeated1 then1 since from ,genesis to  
,revelation1 in every form of human     
language the ,second ,coming is         
proclaimed1 is stamped upon almost every
 page of the ,bible1 is inwrought with  
every fibre of truth it finally         
presents2 since in the ,new ,testament  
alone it is mentioned directly and      
indirectly more than three hundred      
times1 as there is no other theme in the
 ,bible that approaches it in frequency 
of repetition1 it should seem that this 
event and doctrine of the ,second       

,coming with all its promises and       
certified consequences should easily be 
of supreme and all-compelling           
importance2 and because the ,holy       
,spirit has made it of such importance  
,i am under bonds to preach it4  ,those 
who persist in saying it is incidental1 
secondary and sporadic might well be    
said to be of that class of theological 
disputants who never study their ,bible2
 for the fact is should you cut out     
every reference to the ,second ,coming1 
its cognate truths and all the events to
 which it gives emphasis1 you would have
 but a fragment of the ,bible2 and the  
,book upon which faith is founded1 from 
which hope casts its glances heavenward1
 sees light in the grave and immortality
 assured1 would be but as a broken reed1
 a garment of beauty torn and shredded1 
or as a harp whose main chord had been  
snapped asunder4    ,,ii   ,the ,second 
,coming of ,our ,lord ,jesus ,christ is 
,bound up ,with ,every ,fundamental     
,doctrine1 ,every ,sublime ,promise and 

,every ,exhortation to ,high1 to ,holy  
and ,practical ,christian ,living   ,,it
 is bound up with every fundamental     
doctrine4  ,the resurrection from the   
dead1 the transfiguration of the living1
 the judgment seat of ,christ1 the      
judgment of the living nations1 the     
consequent judgment of the white throne1
 the rewards of the righteous and the   
punishment of the wicked4  ,it is bound 
up with every sublime promise4  ,the    
recognition of the dead1 the overthrow  
of ,satan1 the deliverance of creation1 
the triumph of ,god and ,christ and the 
eternal felicity of the saints4  ,it is 
bound up with every exhortation to high1
 to holy and practical ,christian       
living4  ,we are not to forsake the     
assembling of ourselves together as the 
manner of some is4 ,on the ,lord's day  
we are to break bread and drink the     
fruit of the vine1 show forth the       
,lord's death and make known to heaven  
and to earth that the only ground of    
approach to a holy ,god is the          

sacrificial offering and vicarious      
sufferings of the ,son of ,god and ,god 
the ,son1 and that on the ground of ,his
 atoning blood as our sin offering and  
personal substitute we claim ,him as    
redeemer1 saviour and interceding       
priest4  ,we are to love ,god and love  
one another4  ,we are not to judge one  
another4  ,we are not to cast stumbling 
blocks in each other's path4  ,we are to
 walk worthy of our vocation4  ,we are  
to let our moderation be known to all   
men4  ,we are to be patient1            
long-suffering and forbearing4  ,we are 
to engage continually in prayer and     
supplication4  ,we are to live          
blamelessly before men and holily before
 ,god4  ,as pastors we are to shepherd  
the sheep over whom ,god has made us to 
be overseers4  ,we are to feed the      
flock1 not with the philosophies and    
fictions of men1 but with the truth of  
,god4  ,we are to restore the wandering1
 sustain the weak and comfort the       
sorrowing4  ,we are to go to the house  

of mourning and give consolation to     
those who are ,christians and who weep  
above their ,christian dead4  ,as       
preachers we are to preach the ,word4   
,we are to preach in season and out of  
season1 and to exhort with all          
long-suffering and doctrine4  ,we are   
exhorted to this high1 this holy1 this  
exalted and practical ,christian living1
 this reincarnation of ,christ in daily 
experience1 this translation of ,his    
character1 this manifestation of ,his   
guiding and ruling presence1 not by the 
fact that we must die and appear before 
,god1 but by the fact the ,lord ,himself
 is coming1 may come at any time1 that  
any moment we may meet ,him at ,his     
judgment seat4  ,in all the universe of 
,god there is nothing so impressive as  
the thought that you1 that ,i1 that we  
must give a personal account to ,god for
 the manner in which we have used our   
time1 our talent1 our opportunity and   
substance2 and when we are told--as we  
are told in ,holy ,scripture--that any  

moment we may be summoned to give an    
account of our stewardship1 and that    
without dying1 just suddenly1 without a 
moment's warning1 translated bodily and 
with all the sense of the daily life we 
have been living upon us into the       
presence of ,him whose name we have been
 professing--impressiveness has reached 
its ultimate and exhortation the fullest
 leverage of appeal4  ,and he who says  
the ,coming of ,christ considered as a  
doctrine1 as a truth or a motive1 is not
 intensely practical and all-compelling 
to ,christian devotion and service1 is  
either blindly and excuselessly ignorant
 of the ,word of ,god or brutally and   
perversely guilty of denying a truth    
that flashes like lightning from one end
 of the ,bible to the other and         
illuminates every hortative passage in  
the ,word of ,god4  ,when thus you are  
face to face with the indisputable fact 
that every basic doctrine of the        
,christian faith1 every outshining      
promise of hope1 of comfort1 of         

consolation1 of abiding peace1 every    
appeal to the noblest and purest life as
 a ,christian1 every demand that the    
,christian shall unceasingly be the     
light of heaven in the spiritual        
darkness of earth is bound up           
inextricably with the fact of the       
,second ,coming1 it carries with it the 
inevitable corollary that the ,second   
,coming of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ as a
 certified and imminent event is the    
very sum and substance of all available 
motives that can lead to a life of      
practical service to ,god and man4      
,,iii   ,only at the ,coming of ,our    
,lord ,jesus ,christ ,will ,redemption  
be ,complete and the ,blood of the      
,cross be ,justified   ,,our ,lord      
,jesus ,christ did not come into this   
world that ,he might go through the     
unspeakable horror of the cross2 ,he did
 not hang on that brutal and torturing  
instrument of death as the criminal of  
the universe2 ,he did not receive the   
down sweep of the essential antagonism  

of a holy ,god against the sin ,he      
represented2 ,he did not cry the cry of 
the lost1 ,my ,god1 ,my ,god1 why hast  
thou forsaken me82 ,he was not flung out
 like a derelict thing into the black1  
starless night of ,god's inexorable law1
 measureless wrath and indignation where
 ,his humanity unanchored and alone was 
forsaken both by ,god and man2 ,he did  
not hang there in the torment of ,his   
body1 suffering all the agony the most  
exquisitely wrought1 nerve -centered    
body of the universe could suffer of    
physical pain and anguish2 ,god did not 
make ,him to be sin and treat ,him as   
the blackest and most repulsive thing in
 existence2 ,he did not lay upon ,him   
the weight and demerit of a world's     
guilt that ,he might suffer in ,his     
innocence1 ,his purity and innate       
sinlessness on behalf of the vilest     
outcast this side of ,gehenna1 the lake 
of fire1 just that ,he might keep us    
from lying1 cheating1 swearing1 getting 
drunk1 giving ourselves up to           

immorality1 licentiousness and          
sensualism2 ,he did not send ,jesus     
,christ ,his only begotten and          
well-beloved ,son to die a spectacle to 
heaven1 to earth and hell that ,he might
 make us merely decent and right and    
morally correct in our relations to one 
another4 ,all that is involved in the   
fact of redemption just as fragrance is 
involved and included in the rose1 as   
harmony is expected to be a part of     
music and rhythm as well as metre a part
 of verse and song4  ,cleanness and     
morality are involved quantities in a   
,christian4 ,the moment the new life of 
the risen ,christ is wrought in a       
believer and he is linked up by the     
,holy ,ghost to the glorified body of   
the ,son of ,god he has in him all the  
impulse and power of the highest        
morality1 the most exalted purity1 the  
rarest spirituality and the discernment 
of spiritual things4 ,all that is       
self-evident--but the ,son of ,god came 
into this world and went through the    

amazing tragedy and sacrifice of the    
cross to do something more than to make 
us merely moral and good4 ,he came into 
the world1 ,he died the foreordained    
death of the cross that ,he might       
deliver us from death and the grave4    
,death is the blackest and most shameful
 blot on the face of the earth1 the     
grave the most repulsive of scandals1   
drawing the trench of its corruption and
 stain round the girdle of the globe4   
,to bring a human being into the world1 
give him no choice of father or mother1 
of place1 of time and circumstance1     
endow him with a brain to think1 a heart
 to feel and love and then set him face 
to face with death1 hide from him the   
hour of his going like a criminal who   
knows not the hour of his execution2 to 
allow the old to live till they are     
withered1 shrivelled and helpless1 a    
burden to others and a still greater    
burden to themselves1 cursing the fact  
they must live and yet afraid to die2 to
 take a young man in the splendour of   

his youth1 on the threshold of assured  
success1 snatch him away without warning
 from the parents devoted to him1 the   
wife who loves him and the children     
dependent on him2 and then leave them   
both1 the decrepit and useless old and  
the needed young to drop into the       
tongueless silence of the grave1 that   
silence broken only by the sound of the 
clods as they fall on the coffin lid or 
the plash of tears1 or the choking sob2 
to allow the living whose hearts are    
torn and twisted and smashed by the     
robbery that death brings upon them to  
stand there and strangle themselves with
 the unanswered and unanswerable        
questions3 ,whence1 ,what1 and ,whither1
 and then say all this is the work of a 
good1 a compassionate1 a tender and     
loving ,god1 and that death is as       
natural as birth8  ,nay6  ,those who say
 and teach that death is as natural as  
birth are guilty of pure                
unintellectualism and are unwarranted   
deniers of the facts4  ,the birth of a  

child is like the coming of the dawn4   
,it is like the note of a new and joyous
 song4 ,it is the revelation of a new   
world1 a world of life1 of hope1 of     
promised and larger activities4 ,no one 
who is sane and true and wise will      
deliberately seek to hinder birth2 but  
death6 ah6 everything is against death  
and by right against it4  ,every fibre  
in the body repudiates death4 ,pain is  
the protest of life against it and the  
scout that brings in news of its        
approach4 ,the brain1 the mind1 the     
heart shiver at it1 not merely because  
of the native fear at the unknown1 but  
at the mockery it makes of life1 the    
uselessness of living a time1 at the    
longest1 so brief1 so full of           
disappointment and bitterness1 a life   
where plans are never accomplished nor  
hopes fulfilled1 where tears and sorrow 
outweigh laughter and song4  ,every     
remedy taken from materia medica1 every 
operation of the surgeon's knife that   
adds even a day to the sufferer's       

existence1 every hospital1 every        
precaution and invention to prevent     
accident1 all the genius exercised by   
man to conserve health and strength are 
a protest against death and a           
proclamation that it is unnatural1 a    
discord and a wrong4  ,every human being
 who has the slightest pulse of         
sentiment1 who is not sunken in the     
soddenness of moral unconsciousness     
feels that death is the shadow shutting 
out the sun of day and hiding the stars 
of night1 the false note that breaks the
 lilt in any song1 the thief who takes  
the treasure no money can replace1 the  
mocker who bids us readjust our days and
 live as though those whom we have loved
 and lost had never been a part of us1  
so that their going has put more of     
death in those of us who remain to live 
than life--even the brute beast feels   
and knows death is--an enemy4  ,nor does
 ,god ,himself leave us in any doubt    
about it4  ,he says death is an enemy2  
even as it is written3  ,the last enemy 

that shall be destroyed is death4  ,and 
since in itself it is an enemy1 it is1  
necessarily1 the work of an enemy4  ,it 
is the work of an enemy who has the     
power of death4  ,he who has the power  
of death is--the ,devil2 even as it is  
written3  ,him that had the power of    
death1 that is1 the devil4  ,the ,son of
 ,god came into the world that ,he might
 destroy the ,devil and his work of     
death4  ,he came to abolish death and   
bring life and immortality to light4    
,he came to make us something more      
than--just moral4  ,he came to make     
us--immortal4  ,there is only one man in
 the universe who has immortality2 and  
that man is ,he who is our ,lord ,jesus 
,christ1 very ,god and yet true and     
actual man4  ,there is not an immortal  
human being on earth to-day4  ,there is 
no such thing as an immortal soul4  ,but
 here ,i bid you halt6  ,let no one take
 up this statement and go hence and say 
,i teach the final annihilation of the  
soul4  ,he who should go forth and say  

that would be1 after what ,i shall      
further tell you1 a robber of truth and 
character4  ,on this round earth at this
 hour there is no man who has spoken    
more1 written more and1 under ,god1 done
 more to rebuke and smite this          
slavering1 slobbering1 unintellectual   
and ,devil-inspired deception known as  
,russellism1 ,christadelphianism and    
,seventh ,day ,adventism than the man   
who now speaks to you4  ,i affirm here  
that by the will of ,god the soul must  
exist forever whether it be in heaven or
 in hell2 but1 ,i say to you the        
preacher who seeks to deny and overthrow
 the doctrine of annihilation by        
defending the immortality of the soul is
 beaten before he begins4 ,he has his   
pains for his labour4 ,he can find no   
such expression as immortal soul in the 
,bible nor any such doctrine taught     
there4 ,above all1 he is guilty of      
excuseless philological blundering4 ,the
 soul is immaterial4 ,immortal is       
applied to that which is material4 ,the 

words1 immortal1 and immortality are    
never applied in the ,new ,testament to 
the soul--never6 but always and         
exclusively to the body4  ,to be        
immortal means to have a deathless1     
incorruptible body like unto that of the
 ,son of ,god4  ,this1 and this         
alone--as related to man--is ,scriptural
 immortality4 ,the ,son of ,god came    
into the world to give this boon of     
immortality to men4  ,this is the       
supreme objective of redemption4  ,till 
that objective is obtained redemption is
 not complete and the blood of the cross
 is not justified4  ,do you call the    
redemption of ,paul complete so long as 
his body lies mingled with the dust of  
the highway by the banks of that yellow 
,tiber where he was slain8  ,do you call
 complete the redemption of those you   
love and ,i love so long as the ,devil  
like the strong man armed with the law  
holds the mortgage on their bodies and  
keeps them in his dark and worm-filled  
house--the grave8  ,it is true1         

blessedly true1 thank ,god1 the moment a
 believer dies he is absent from his    
home in the body and immediately present
 at his home with the ,lord in the third
 heaven1 in the beautiful country of    
,paradise1 in the ,holy ,city1 the place
 prepared4  ,it is true the dear        
departed ones are clothed with the white
 robe of immaculate light woven on the  
unjarring looms of heaven1 a temporary  
clothing which preserves their form and 
makes them visible and recognizable to  
one another2 but with it all they are   
disembodied1 and in spite of the comfort
 and the consolation of it1 in spite of 
the fact that their state is far better 
than this at its best1 still they are   
souls whose vehicle is no longer body1  
but spirit 7wherefore after death they  
are sometimes spoken of as spirits72    
nevertheless1 the ,son of ,god did not  
come to make us eternal1 even if        
happy--ghosts4  ,if ,christians should  
continue to die and should remain as    
white clothed ghosts in heaven forever  

they would be an incongruous environment
 and abiding scandal to the immortality 
of the ,son of ,god ,himself4 ,a living1
 immortal man shining in a glorified    
human body surrounded by bodiless souls 
forever6 ,what a contradiction that     
would be1 what a scandal1 indeed4 ,it   
would be the declaration that the ,son  
of ,god had power to rise from the dead1
 make ,his own body immortal1 impervious
 to death1 but in respect to those for  
whom ,he died and who died trusting in  
,his promise ,he either did not have the
 power or did not care to keep ,his     
promise4  ,such a conclusion in either  
member of the proposition is impossible4
 ,it is impossible1 for no such         
postulate as inability or faithlessness 
can be laid against the ,son of ,god4   
,by ,his own immortality as the         
first-fruits of them that slept1 as the 
ordained forerunner and sample of all   
those whom ,he has redeemed ,he is1 and 
in the nature of things1 under bonds to 
give immortality to each1 to raise the  

dead and transfigure the living in ,his 
likeness4  ,as the dead can be raised   
and the living changed only when ,he is 
personally present then ,he must come to
 this world again to give that          
immortality of which seated on yonder   
throne in heaven ,he is the promise and 
the pledge4  ,he made this promise by   
the grave of ,lazarus4  ,standing there 
with ,his cheeks wet with tears of      
sorrow over the one ,he loved and in    
profound sympathy with the              
grief-stricken sisters1 groaning in     
,himself1 not merely as one who was     
under the spell of sorrow and heartache1
 but full of indignant protest 7this is 
the meaning of the word to groan7       
against the havoc of death as the work  
of that being whom we so familiarly call
 ,devil1 without stopping to measure his
 dignity1 malignity and power1 ,he said3
  ,i am the resurrection and the life2  
he that believeth in me1 though he were 
dead1 yet shall he live3  ,and whosoever
 liveth and believeth in me shall never 

die4  ,wondrous1 gracious1 far reaching 
and full of measureless comfort is the  
promise1 but nine out of ten who repeat 
it seem never to have comprehended the  
full import of it4  ,for this is what   
,he meant4  ,listen to it as ,i quote it
 in its fullness of intent3  ,i am the  
resurrection and the life3 he that      
believeth in me1 though he were dead1   
yet--when ,i come again--shall he live3 
,and whosoever liveth and believeth in  
me--when ,i come again--shall never die4
  ,nor is this a fictional fancy of     
mine1 but the direct declaration of the 
,holy ,spirit to the ,church speaking   
through the ,apostle ,paul2 for he says3
  ,behold1 ,i shew you a mystery3 we    
shall not all sleep1 but we shall all be
 changed1  ,in a moment1 in the         
twinkling of an eye1 at the last trump2 
for the trumpet shall sound1 and the    
dead shall be raised incorruptible1 and 
we shall be changed4  ,for this         
corruptible must put on incorruption1   
and this mortal must put on immortality4

  ,so when this corruptible shall have  
put on incorruption and this mortal     
shall have put on immortality1 then 7and
 not till then--not when we die and go  
to heaven1 but when the dead are raised 
and the living are changed--then--and   
not till then7 shall be brought to pass 
the saying that is written 7written by  
the ,prophet ,isaiah in the twenty-fifth
 chapter of his prophecy71 death is     
swallowed up in victory4  ,o death1     
where is thy sting8 ,o grave1 where is  
thy victory8  ,and mark it well1 the    
context of this ,holy ,ghost promise is 
the declaration that the resurrection of
 the dead1 the transfiguration of the   
living1 this changing from mortality to 
immortality will be the resurrection and
 the transfiguration of those who are   
,christ's at ,his coming4  ,yes6 ,he    
will come4  ,he will descend from heaven
 with a shout of command4 ,he will pass 
it on to the archangel4 ,the archangel  
will pass it to the angel who is called 
the trump of ,god4 ,he will cause a     

sound1 a blast1 an utterance of power at
 which the doors of graves of every sort
 shall open outward1 every secret hiding
 place of the purchased dead will be    
revealed and the sacred dust will bloom 
with life2 for1 in the body of every    
regenerated soul there is planted the   
germ of the new body2 and just as the   
buried seed is linked by the unseen air 
to the fructifying sun in heaven and as 
at a given moment we call the           
germination is quickened and at last    
comes forth in new form yet the same    
essential embodiment as when planted2   
so1 the regeneration nucleus of the new 
body is held by the ,holy ,spirit 7of   
which the air is the symbol7 to the     
risen1 glorified body of the ,son of    
,god in heaven2 and no matter what may  
befall the body in which it was buried  
it will abide to that hour we call the  
resurrection and transfiguration and at 
the shout1 the voice and action of the  
trump of ,god will come forth in the    
glow of unfolded and eternal beauty as  

the sheath1 the house1 the home1 the    
perfect dwelling place1 the royal robe  
of the souls the ,lord shall bring with 
,him2 while the living shall flash forth
 in the same immortality and glory4     
,yes6 the dust of death shall bloom and 
mortality shall put on immortality at   
the ,coming of the ,lord4  ,and ,i for  
one want ,him to come4  ,i have loved   
ones waiting within the gates of the    
upper city for that morning hour4  ,i   
have one there my heart in these days   
yearns to see4  ,but a short time ago   
death with rude and sudden hand snatched
 from me my only child1 the son of my   
heart2 a son grown to splendid young    
manhood2 a son who loved me1 reverenced 
me1 believed as ,i believe1 a member of 
my own ,church1 baptized by my own hand 
in early days3 a son on whom ,i hoped to
 lean in peace if the shadows should    
deepen round me ere my ,lord might come4
 ,and in the going of that beloved son  
of mine the light of day has seemed at  
times to fail1 the stars of heaven have 

grown so dim and far away ,i think of   
them often as tears of distant eyes that
 pity me4 ,there are moments when ,i    
crave him as a hungry man does food and 
as a thirsty man in desert ways yearns  
for a draught of limpid waters4 ,i have 
a hurt here in the heart of me no       
medicine of earth can cure2 but because 
,i know when the ,lord comes this son of
 mine shall rise and ,i shall meet him  
and the old glad life renew in larger1  
richer1 fuller measure2 and because ,i  
know there is only the sound of the     
trump between me and that longed-for    
hour2 that the door of heaven is always 
ajar and my ,lord may come at any moment
 and bring us to the hand clasp and the 
love embrace again1 ,i bear my hurt1 ,i 
rest in the ,lord and preach this       
blessed hope to other hearts that       
ache--the ,coming of ,him who is the    
resurrection and the life and whose last
 earthward utterance to ,his ,church is3
  ,behold1 ,i come quickly4    ,,iv     
,not ,till ,our ,lord ,jesus ,christ    

,comes the ,second ,time ,will the      
,church be ,exalted into ,her ,true     
,function of ,rulership ,over the ,world
  ,,the ,church was not sent into the   
world to convert or ,christianize it4   
,it was sent into the world to preach   
the ,gospel to every creature4  ,it was 
not to condone the world but to condemn 
it4  ,with its twin doctrines of        
,incarnation and ,regeneration it was to
 ring the knell of evolution and deny   
the hope of any saving energy in the    
flesh4  ,it was not to flatter1 to      
paint1 to gild nor endeavour in any wise
 to reform or organize the world4  ,it  
was to deal with the world1 with the    
system called the world1 as a ship      
pounding to pieces1 and pounding        
helplessly1 upon the rocks of fallen    
human nature1 the dethronement of ,god  
in the soul and the enthronement and    
exaltation of self-interest in the soul4
  ,the ,church in its ministry and      
widely commissioned effort was to       
plunge1 as a well-equipped and perfectly

 manned life-boat may do1 into the sea  
and surf of natural and ,satanic things 
and get men out of an old system under  
the doom and judgment of ,god into      
,christ as the head of a new system     
under grace and the coming glory of     
,god4  ,the ,church was not to build up 
a kingdom during the absence of the     
,lord4  ,on the contrary1 she was to    
recognize herself as the affianced bride
 of a rejected king and coming          
bridegroom4  ,she was to walk in        
separation from the world1 refusing the 
seductive enticements of her would-be   
lovers and with an upward and heavenly  
look serve while she waited for a       
returning ,lord4  ,the ,lord did not    
come4  ,the ,church grew weary of her   
vigil4  ,she exchanged the heavenly for 
the earthly look4  ,she met the ,devil  
and felt the magic of his bewitching    
glances4  ,he had led her ,lord to the  
mount of temptation4 ,he had shown ,him 
all the kingdoms of the world and their 
glory4 ,he offered them to ,him on      

condition that ,he would turn ,his feet 
out of the pathway that led to the      
sacrificial cross4 ,he offered them on  
condition that ,he should refuse to go  
to the cross and there in the agony of  
,his soul and body and on the loom of   
,his vicarious sufferings weave the     
seamless robe of divine righteousness   
for sinful men4  ,the ,lord refused4    
,the ,devil turned and slew ,him4  ,he  
now led the willing ,church to the same 
mountain height of temptation4  ,he     
tempted her with the same temptation he 
had offered her ,lord3 ,the rulership of
 the world4  ,if she would turn aside   
from a heaven-ordained bridegroom and a 
king whose face she could not see1 she  
might win the world as her kingdom and  
rule it in spite of the cross4  ,the    
offer of world rulership sounded        
pleasant in her ears4  ,she yielded4    
,she fell into the arms of the world4   
,the world became her paramour4  ,she   
became the world's mistress4  ,out of   
that ungodly and sensual alliance was   

born the illegitimate child1 that woful 
ecclesiastical offspring1 we call the   
,roman ,catholic ,church4  ,the ,roman  
,catholic ,church became the ,holy      
,roman ,empire4  ,the ,empire was the   
,church4  ,for long and dismal ages the 
,roman ,church exhibited to perfection  
the evil1 the folly and fatality of that
 false and deceptive proposition that   
the ,church is the kingdom of ,christ on
 earth4  ,then came the ,reformation4   
,it so smote the ,catholic ,church that 
men imagined the tiara to be broken1    
crushed and scattered to the winds      
forever4  ,they were mistaken4  ,it came
 from underneath that blow almost as if 
it had risen from the dead4  ,to-day it 
is more populous than ever1 having a    
membership of at least two hundred      
millions4 ,it has a more intensely      
emphasized solidarity4 ,it is filled    
with enthusiasm1 with ever-increasing   
arrogance and persistent aggression4    
,it is the religious incubus of the     
hour1 the spiritual paralysis of nations

 and their most dangerous political     
menace4  ,with brazen effrontery and    
calculating boldness it has its clutch  
upon the throat of this ,republic1      
controls its government from the        
,presidential office down through army  
and navy1 has open mass in the shipyards
 of the latter1 in camp and barracks its
 priests are masters and its wily       
knights of ,columbus have obtained      
governmental favours and consideration  
the ,young ,men's ,christian            
,association would not dare to claim4   
,it rules your cities1 holds the balance
 of political power and can1 when it    
will1 elect a ,president1 and will      
promptly do so when the candidate for   
that high office shall be willing1 as   
already it has been done by the present 
occupant of that office1 to visit the   
,vatican or officially recognize the    
civil as well as religious authority of 
the ,pope or receive the ,apostolic     
delegate of the ,papal ,see4  ,the      
clutch of ,romanism with its strangle   

hold is on the throat of what remains of
 ,protestantism4  ,protestantism is the 
after birth of the ,reformation4        
,protestantism repudiated all the       
temporalities of ,rome but held on to   
the proposition that the ,church is the 
kingdom of ,christ on earth4            
,protestantism is to-day broken up into 
multiplying fragments4 ,if there be any 
unity remaining in it it is the unity   
that comes from the compromising denial 
of the convictions that led to the      
original break into fragments2 a unity  
that hopes to maintain itself by        
classifying many of its former          
convictions as non-essentials and thus  
constitutes a combination that must     
become more and more colourless and     
inefficient in respect to doctrine4     
,some of its theological institutions   
are nothing better than clearing houses 
of infidelity and the curricula made up 
of ,jericho theology4 ,it has           
universities in which many of the       
professors have been graduated in       

,germany1 having passed through the     
poison gas factory of the ,berlin       
university1 and under the camouflage    
department of sacred literature are     
sending out the mentally and spiritually
 asphyxiating poison of ,german         
rationalism1 inoculating every fresh lot
 of newly made ministers and would-be   
missionaries with rank unbelief and     
,bible repudiation1 distributing the    
poison into the back counties as well as
 municipal centers until there are      
scores of men who once stood for a whole
 ,gospel and a certified ,word of ,god  
who now stand first on one foot then on 
the other debating with themselves      
whether this ,scripture that was once   
considered holy and sufficient is after 
all a revelation from ,god or an        
invention of man4  ,a large number of   
men who are at the front in the         
teaching1 the management1 the           
organization and control of the churches
 of the different denominations         
repudiate practically every fundamental 

doctrine of the ,christian faith4  ,they
 deny the ,virgin birth4  ,the denial of
 the ,virgin birth puts a stain upon the
 mother of ,jesus as of a woman who has 
broken wedlock and sends her son forth  
as a bastard1 an illegitimate who had no
 legal right to come into the world2 and
 then illogically1 if not               
hypocritically1 those who deny it bid us
 take this son and make ,him the        
exemplar of righteousness1 forgetting or
 ignoring the self-evident fact that if1
 indeed1 ,he had but a human and natural
 father then was ,he bred in sin and    
unfit to be set up as the supreme       
standard of righteousness and holiness  
among men4  ,there are those who deny   
the sacrificial character of the death  
of the cross4  ,they repudiate atonement
 by the shedding of blood4  ,when we    
tell them it is written without shedding
 of blood there is no remission and it  
is the blood of ,jesus ,christ1 ,god's  
,son1 that alone cleanseth from all sin 
they fling up their hands in protest1   

tell us we are to be numbered among the 
figures of the past and that the        
theology we seek to maintain is the     
theology of the butcher shop1 the       
barbarous doctrine of the shambles and  
the shadow of old -time tribal gods     
whose vengefulness and wrath could be   
appeased only by the murder of a victim4
  ,they repudiate the doctrine of the   
bodily resurrection of the ,lord4  ,his 
body has long ago mingled with the dust 
of ,palestine and been blown afar by    
careless winds4 ,if ,he rose at all it  
was as the principle of righteousness   
and truth1 whatever such a resurrection 
may mean4 ,they will no longer tolerate 
the insistent need of regeneration4 ,it 
has been said that if a man is well born
 the first time he does not need to be  
born the second time4  ,in the nature of
 the case such teaching rejects our     
,lord's bodily ascension to heaven and  
,his session as a glorified man who is  
very ,god at the right hand of the      
,father4  ,above all1 and as a further  

consequent of such an attitude1 teachers
 of this class repudiate with an almost 
hysterical outcry1 not only the thought 
that the ,lord will come a second time  
to this world1 but that those who love  
,him and yearn to see ,him will ever    
behold ,him coming in visible glory so  
that they may stand face to face with   
,him and get the very touch of ,his     
hands upon them in the vital benediction
 for which they are longing4  ,these    
advanced teachers repudiate the ,bible  
as the inspired1 infallible1 inerrant   
,word of ,god1  ,the ,pentateuch1 the   
writings of ,moses1 is a bundle of folk 
lore1 ,moses himself a fiction no more  
substantial than ,abraham1 ,isaac and   
,jacob4 ,the historic books of the ,old 
,testament are unreliable and therefore 
not history at all4 ,the book of the    
prophet ,isaiah instead of one author   
has many1 each in turn contradicting the
 other4 ,the book of ,ezekiel from its  
incomprehensible wheels as they flash by
 the banks of the river ,chebar to the  

impossible temple and its animal        
offerings with the ever-deepening river 
flowing out of it1 is as mystic as the  
amazing cherubim which the prophet      
seeks1 but apparently fails1 to         
describe4 ,the prophecies of ,daniel    
were written long after the events they 
pretend to foretell4 ,from ,genesis to  
,malachi the ,old ,testament is in      
reality the mixed history of a tribal   
people with a national god whose        
attributes and demands are no more      
authentic and authoritative than those  
of the gods of ,greece and ,rome4  ,the 
,new ,testament while a degree of       
advance on the ,old by reason of the    
progress of the times and the more      
cultivated environment of its origin is 
not a whit more divinely inspired4 ,the 
three ,synoptic ,gospels are witnesses  
summoned to court where their success is
 the contradiction and confusion of the 
story they attempt to tell4 ,the book of
 ,acts is a combination pamphlet put    
together by the followers of ,peter and 

,paul as an attempt to compromise       
between the one who was the ,apostle to 
the ,circumcision and the other who was 
the ,apostle to the ,gentiles4  ,the    
epistles of ,paul are filled with the   
pernicious influence of apocalyptic1    
,jewish fictions and the crass concept  
the ,apostle had of the kingdom of      
,christ4 ,page after page is filled with
 proof that he expected the ,lord to    
come in his day and was sorely mistaken1
 making that confession at the close of 
his writings and turning his attention  
to death and the grave1 no longer having
 expectation of the ,coming of the ,lord
 as the daily hope of the ,church4  ,it 
is these palpable errors of ,paul1 his  
honest1 but undoubted mistakes that are 
wholly responsible for that strange     
thing 7so the ,post-millennialists think
 it7 known as ,pre-millennialism1 a     
system of teaching which stands for a   
whole ,bible1 a ,gospel of redeeming    
blood1 a risen and actually coming      
,saviour1 coming again in the flesh1 and

 seeks with an insistent and constant   
thus saith the ,lord to win the souls of
 men to a grace-given and grace-dealing 
,saviour4 7,and ,i may say in passing   
that ,paul1 under ,god1 is undoubtedly  
responsible for this doctrine so        
persistent and aggressive1 this doctrine
 of ,premillennialism47  ,to the        
advanced theological professor          
,revelation is a piece of crazy quilt   
patchwork1 so full of symbols that have 
no intelligent meaning1 symbols that can
 be interpreted by twenty different     
expositors in twenty different ways1 is 
so full of monsters and nightmare doings
 that only an unbalanced mind could have
 written it and one equally unbalanced  
would alone attempt to decipher it4  ,to
 these teachers and leaders who count   
themselves as progressive followers of  
the ,christ of ,god1 who practically set
 aside the matter of miracles as no more
 worthy of credence than the stories of 
,alice in ,wonderland1 the final place  
of the deposit of authority is in the   

individual and subconscious mind4       
,these professors1 teachers and leaders 
to a large degree are an expression of  
,protestantism4  ,protestantism to-day  
stands for everything in general and    
nothing in particular1 except its       
protest against being definite and      
particular4  ,it has thrown eschatology 
overboard4  ,it no longer has any       
interest in hereafter things4  ,there   
may be a holy city in heaven2 it does   
not know1 it will not affirm for nor    
against2 but it does know there are     
unholy cities on earth4  ,the streets of
 the upper city may be paved with gold2 
it will not enter into controversy about
 it2 but it is certain the streets down 
here are paved with poor asphalt and    
trodden by footsore and weary men4      
,heaven may be more desirable than      
earth4 ,the condition there may be a    
great advance on this4 ,advanced        
thinkers in ,protestantism will neither 
affirm nor deny that2 but they are      
convinced the conditions down here      

should be made much better and if       
possible even that of heaven on earth4  
,the truth is1 both heaven and hell1    
like angelology1 have fallen out of     
modern theology4 ,heaven is too high and
 hell too deep4 ,no telescope has ever  
revealed the one and modern sweetness1  
gentleness and light repudiate the      
cruelty and sufferings of the other4    
,the ,gospel for the individual soul1   
the soul the ,son of ,god once          
outweighed against a whole world in all 
that the world might stand for of wealth
 and riches and power and attained      
ambitions1 saying the profit in the gain
 of a whole world would not equal the   
loss of one soul1 has been set aside4   
,instead we have that modern and amazing
 evangel known as the ,social ,gospel4  
,here for illustration are two old      
people living in a miserable cabin in a 
reeking1 malarial swamp with a dozen    
children drinking in the poison of their
 environment4 ,what folly to spend time 
and money on the father or mother4 ,how 

inefficient any effort to save the      
children just one by one4 ,get to work  
at once and drain the swamp1 drive out  
the poisonous and infectious insects    
with which the place is swarming1 fill  
in the land with fine clean earth1 plant
 flowers and sow seeds of fruitful      
harvests1 let the salt sea blow in and  
breathe across the spot4  ,the old      
people may die1 in all probability they 
will1 but under right and sanitary      
conditions the children will grow up    
into vigorous elements of a strong and  
worthful society4  ,why spend time1     
money1 heart and enthusiasm in seeking  
to overcome or straighten out and make  
correct the bent lives that have come   
down to us through the unsanitary moral 
conditions of a previous generation8 ,we
 have had wretched laws1 desperate      
customs1 children have grown up under   
them to become fathers and mothers of   
generations no better than themselves4  
,it is neither economy of mind nor      
matter1 so the modernists teach1 to     

build mission houses1 gather the people1
 old and young1 and frighten them with  
the thought that when they die they     
shall pass into an environment worse    
than the one in which they are          
endeavouring to eke out a handicapped   
existence4 ,let us do the wise thing--go
 not so much to the prayer meetings1 but
 to the legislatures1 get bills passed1 
laws made that will drive out the false 
and disastrous conditions now obtaining2
 legislate so that it will no longer be 
possible for people to drink themselves 
drunk1 steep themselves in drugs1 smoke 
themselves yellow with tobacco1 yield to
 the fascination of gambling in any     
form4 ,let society be cleaned from these
 evils and the result will be certain4  
,a generation that shall never see a    
saloon1 a bottle of wine or whiskey2 a  
generation that will never know the     
meaning of rum and tobacco and will     
never see a house of ill fame will be a 
generation that must grow up in         
righteousness and truth4 ,there will be 

no more drunken brawls1 no multiplied   
lawlessness1 no diseased bodies1 no     
moral leprosy4 ,the world will be safe  
for each individual4 ,each individual   
will have a saved1 moral life here1 a   
life lived in obedience to the laws of  
nature1 and as the laws of nature are   
the laws of ,god1 in obedience to ,god4 
,and what danger can the hereafter1 if  
there be such a thing as the hereafter1 
hold for any one who is so obeying the  
laws of ,god8  ,get society right and   
the individual will become right4  ,that
 is the modern ,gospel4  ,that is the   
message to a needy world3  ,get society 
right and the individual will become    
right4  ,i do not interject here in full
 testimony the nevertheless fact that   
such a pagan city as ,rome1 or          
licentious ,corinth or idolatrous       
,ephesus were lifted into cleanness and 
moral decency1 not by legislative       
action1 by reorganization of local      
conditions1 but by the regeneration of  
one individual at a time until the      

divine sanity and personal spirituality 
enthroned in them built up societies1   
assemblies of such heaven-given health  
that the old social conditions were     
overthrown2 so overthrown by the        
personal ,gospel ,paul preached that    
throughout ,asia ,minor the people had  
been turned away from the worship of    
their gods1 in ,ephesus the temple of   
,diana was largely deserted and the     
craftsmen who made the silver1 souvenir 
images of the goddess complained their  
business was almost at an end4          
,strangely enough the advocates of this 
social ,gospel set up the individual    
life of the ,son of ,god as the means by
 which society is to be made right2 but 
they set up1 not the life ,he is living 
now as the risen1 glorified ,god-man2 on
 the contrary the life ,he lived before 
,he died1 the character ,he exhibited as
 a social reformer and an exemplar in   
righteousness4 ,men1 they say1 are not  
to be saved by the death ,christ died1  
but by the life ,he then lived4 ,he is  

to be taken as the proof of the doctrine
 of evolution and the possibilities in  
the natural man4 ,he is the most        
advanced son of ,god who ever lived4    
,all other men are innately sons of     
,god1 but undeveloped4  ,the fact of    
,christ1 it is said1 is a sublime       
encouragement to any man4 ,he has only  
to copy ,him in ,his words and deeds to 
find the divine life unfolding4 ,get    
away from the sacrificial ,christ1 this 
modern ,gospel teaches1 to the social   
,christ1 the ,christ who was interested 
in the poor and needy and who arraigned 
wrong social conditions2 take the       
attitude of ,christ in relation to the  
evil of ,his times and with ,him as the 
inspiration institute right legislation 
and right social conditions and the     
world will soon approach the condition  
of heaven on earth4  ,this is the       
infidellic drive of ,protestantism      
today4  ,protestantism has come down    
from the plane of the supernatural to   
the plane of the natural4  ,every day   

,protestantism is becoming more and more
 a society for competitive morality4    
,in short1 the ,protestantism of the    
hour is a combination of religiousness1 
civilization1 ,christianity1 socialism1 
pagan philosophy1 unitarianism and the  
energy of the flesh4  ,nor need we be   
startled at this as though some strange 
thing had taken place4 ,long ago the    
,apostle warned us that it would be     
necessary to preach the ,word in season 
and out of season--just as a watchman is
 under bonds to flash light in the      
darkness--because the time would come   
when the ,church should have a form of  
godliness1 but denying the power        
thereof2 when it would not endure sound 
doctrine1 but in obedience to the       
itching of the flesh should heap to     
itself teachers who should endeavour to 
respond to these worldly demands2       
teachers who in the end should turn the 
people away from the truth and turn them
 to the fictions and fables of men2     
teachers of whom the ,apostle ,peter    

warned who should bring in damnable     
heresies1 even denying the ,lord who had
 bought them1 teachers whom ,jude       
foresaw would creep in unawares4  ,men  
who consult the chart of a seacoast     
which marks the place of breakers and   
treacherous1 hidden ledges1 now and then
 thrust out through the white foam like 
the gleaming sharp teeth of waiting     
sharks1 are not startled when they see  
the surf breaking at the indicated spot 
and hear the roar of the waters where it
 was announced they should lift up their
 thunder2 they are not surprised1       
instead their confidence in the accuracy
 of the chart is emphasized4  ,likewise 
when those who have read the forecast in
 ,holy ,scripture1 while they may feel a
 certain grief at the facts as they are1
 rejoice when they see these things that
 even the failure of man as man and the 
betrayal of committed trust bear witness
 to the accuracy of ,holy ,writ4  ,with 
all its failure the professing ,church  
still claims to be the kingdom of       

,christ on earth and asserts its        
determination to rule the world4 ,rome  
holds to the idea with unfailing faith  
and with consistent ,jesuitical and     
political scheming is moving forward    
with united front to temporal           
sovereignty4 ,protestantism with its new
 watchword of a reorganized world is    
making all its plans to attain the place
 of power by social1 moral and political
 means4  ,what would be said of a queen 
who entered into partnership with men   
whose hands were still red with the     
blood of her murdered husband and       
rejected king8 ,what could be said but  
that she had wholly forgotten or proved 
totally false to the principles for     
which her husband had died8  ,what shall
 be said of a ,church which seeks to    
enter into partnership with a world that
 slew her ,lord2 which under all the    
smile and smoothness of moral1 social   
and philosophical phrases and all the   
hypocritical laudations of ,his human   
character rejects ,his deity and hears  

in ,his cry of agony on the cross the   
proof that ,he was only a man who failed
 as other men have failed at the last4  
,such a ,church as that has lost the    
vision of its true attitude during the  
absence of its rejected ,lord and is    
well-nigh to forfeiting its commission4 
,over the professing ,church is sounding
 to-day with ominous significance the   
,apostolic words of warning3  ,what1    
know ye not that the friendship of the  
world is enmity with ,god2 and that     
whosoever will be the friend of the     
world1 is the enemy of ,god8  ,the      
,corinthian ,church attempted to take   
the place of rulership in the world4    
,with keen and biting words the ,apostle
 rebukes them4  ,thus he writes to them3
  ,now ye are full1 now ye are rich1 ye 
have reigned as kings without us3 and ,i
 would to ,god ye did reign1 that we    
might also reign with you4  ,then he    
adds by way of contrast3  ,i think that 
,god hath set forth us the apostles     
last1 as it were appointed to death3 for

 we are made a spectacle unto the world1
 and to angels and to men4  ,it is this 
same apostle who under the inspiration  
of the ,spirit in his second epistle    
writes to ,timothy3  ,if we suffer1 we  
shall also reign with him4  ,it is not  
while her ,lord is the crucified and    
rejected that the ,church is to reign   
and rule over the world4 ,not while ,he 
is seated on ,his ,father's throne in   
heaven and ,his own throne on earth is  
cast down and trampled in the dust4     
,nay6 if the ,church is faithful she    
will walk in separation from the world4 
,if the ,church is faithful she will    
testify against the world1 not testify  
merely against certain abuses1 but      
against the world as a system1 that it  
is built upon the principle of the      
enthronement of self and not ,god1 the  
exaltation of the flesh and not spirit4 
,if the ,church shall be faithful and   
like ,noah in the building of his ark   
condemn the world2 if the ,church will  
take up earnestly the solemn truth of   

,god and warn men that no matter how    
good a government may be established by 
human means1 no matter what culture and 
morality may fill the earth1 no matter  
to what extent advance may be made in   
art1 in science1 nor no matter how safe 
a place the world may be made to live   
in1 no matter to what heights of natural
 morality and righteousness man as man  
may attain1 the judgment of ,god against
 this system of man called the world is 
certain1 and that ,he will arise in ,his
 majesty to shake terribly the earth1   
and that only the things that are built 
on ,god can remain1 the ,church will    
suffer and be rejected even as was her  
,lord4  ,the ,church is to be faithful  
to the testimony of ,christ and enter   
into the fellowship of ,his sufferings4 
,the day of her triumph will come4  ,she
 is yet to rule over the world4  ,the   
hour and the circumstances are fixed4   
,listen1 ,i pray you1 to the words of   
the ,spirit as ,he speaks through the   
,apostle ,paul3  ,when ,christ who is   

our life shall appear--then 7and not    
till then7 shall ye also appear with    
,him in glory4  ,only when ,christ shall
 come to take to ,himself ,his long     
deferred rulership can the ,church enter
 into her rulership over the world4 ,in 
the fifth chapter of the ,revelation you
 have the new song of the ,church1 the  
song of redemption and rule4  ,this is  
the triumphant song2 it is a song of    
praise addressed to the ,son of ,god    
,himself3  ,thou wast slain and hast    
redeemed us to ,god by thy blood1 out of
 every kindred1 and tongue1 and people1 
and nation3  ,and hast made us unto our 
,god kings and priests2 and we shall    
reign on the earth4  ,but mark the      
moment when that song is sung1 the      
occasion of occasions6  ,it is at that  
supreme moment when as the ,lion of the 
tribe of ,judah yonder in ,his risen and
 glorified humanity in heaven ,he steps 
forward1 ,son of man1 king of the ,jews 
and king of ,israel to take the title   
deeds of ,his kingdom from the hand of  

the ,father2 that moment when ,he is    
getting ready to cast ,his judgments on 
the earth and come forth as in the days 
of ,noah to sweep away all iniquity and 
unrighteousness4 ,it is at this moment  
when ,he is about to take to ,himself   
,his great power and descend in judgment
 glory that the ,church bursts forth    
into her song of redemption and rule4   
,it is at the ,second ,coming of our    
,lord ,jesus ,christ alone that the     
,church will enter upon her function of 
rulership over the world4 ,she cannot   
reign till ,he comes and puts her in the
 place of ,his queen and in associated  
power with ,himself4  ,and because ,i   
want to see the ,church lifted up out of
 social1 political and fleshly          
partnership with the world2 because ,i  
want to see the ,church in the place of 
authority and power making and          
fulfilling the edicts of ,god2 because  
,i want to see the ,church so exalted   
into the place of rulership that all the
 nations shall walk in the light of her 

excellency1 her righteousness and       
holiness2 and because this high and     
glorious state will be attained alone at
 the ,coming of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ
 ,i preach ,his ,second ,coming4    ,v  
,only at the ,second ,coming ,will the  
,solemn and ,covenant ,promises of ,god 
to ,israel be ,fulfilled   ,,god sware  
to ,abraham that he and his posterity   
should have the land of ,palestine for  
an everlasting possession4  ,abraham    
never got a foot of the land under      
covenant promise4  ,the only bit of     
ground he was able to call his was the  
burial plot he purchased with his own   
money4  ,the children of ,israel never  
entered the promised land under the     
,abrahamic covenant4  ,the ,lord        
redeemed them from ,egypt1 brought them 
through the divided waters of the ,red  
,sea1 led them by ,his presence1 bore   
them up as on eagle's wings and dealt   
with them in pure1 unconditional grace  
till they came to ,sinai4  ,there in all
 the pride and self-sufficiency of the  

flesh they took themselves off the      
ground of grace and unconditional       
covenant and put themselves under the   
covenant of the law4  ,this covenant was
 a covenant of good behaviour4  ,they   
were to possess the land as long as they
 fulfilled the terms of the covenant    
under the seal of its blessing and      
cursing4  ,after the first generation   
had perished in the wilderness because  
of their unbelief1 the second generation
 crossed the ,jordan dry shod as their  
fathers had crossed the ,red ,sea and   
entered the land under pledge and bond  
of good behaviour4  ,they were not able 
to keep the covenant of their own       
suggestion4 ,ten tribes went into an    
abomination of organized and politically
 inspired idolatry4  ,in judgment and   
according to ,his warning ,he caused    
them to be carried away captives and    
buried nationally among the people      
whither they were led and for           
twenty-five hundred years have been     
nationally lost to view4  ,for two      

thousand years because of similar and   
aggravated offenses and finally1 because
 as a nation guilty of manslaughter in  
slaying the ,lord their covenant king1  
the ,jews have been the wanderers of the
 earth1 the people of the restless foot1
 finding a home in every land but their 
own4  ,has ,god failed to keep ,his     
promise8  ,has ,he been unable or       
unwilling to keep ,his promise8         
,neither postulate is possible4  ,god's 
counsel is immutable4  ,he confirmed it 
by an oath4 ,and since ,he could swear  
by nothing greater ,he sware by         
,himself4  ,in the nature of the case   
then scattered ,israel and wandering    
,judah must be gathered4 ,they must     
return to their own land4  ,god has so  
promised4  ,these promises are to be    
found upon the pages of ,holy ,writ like
 the leaves of autumn--so many1 so      
thickly strewn1 now in single phrase1 in
 connected passages1 in whole chapters  
that should ,i attempt to read them     
slowly and distinctly1 giving the sense1

 it would take me till the morning      
light4  ,the ,lord declares ,he has     
written their names upon the palms of   
,his hand4  ,they are as near and       
sensitively dear to ,him1 ,he says1 as  
the apple of ,his eye4 ,he is so        
interested1 so determined concerning    
their restoration that ,he uses the most
 intensive language to express it1      
language that almost thunders aloud from
 the page as you read it4  ,he uses     
language no less intense than this3     
,yea1 ,i will rejoice over them to do   
them good1 and ,i will plant them in    
this land 7the land of ,palestine7      
assuredly with my whole heart and with  
my whole soul4  ,try and think of that6 
,let it penetrate your mind4 ,the ,lord 
who made heaven and earth1 whose very   
name is omnipotence1 says ,he will put  
the whole of ,his omnipotent heart and  
the whole of ,his omnipotent soul into  
the execution and the accomplishment of 
,his determination and purpose to plant 
the children of ,israel once more and   

forever in their own land4  ,in the face
 of that registered will and purpose    
what power is there of man or ,devil2   
what force is there in all the sweep of 
the universe that can hinder the chosen 
and covenant people of ,god from going  
back to ,palestine and possessing that  
land as theirs and theirs alone1        
forever8  ,but what evidence have we1   
what demonstration and proof that ,god  
will fulfill this postscript promise and
 plan8  ,what evidence have we from the 
bare statement of ,god that ,he will    
keep this promise8  ,the evidence is    
manifold and overwhelming4  ,before even
 the children of ,israel crossed the    
,jordan the ,lord warned them in        
language which burns and blisters that  
if they did not keep the law covenant   
and walk in the ways of righteousness   
and truth ,he would cause them to fall  
before their enemies4 ,they should go   
out one way before them and flee seven  
ways4 ,their cities should be taken and 
their wives ravished4 ,they should be   

led captives into every land4 ,they     
should become a proverb1 a byword1 a    
hissing and a scorn4 ,every hand should 
be against them to do them ill4 ,they   
should find no ease whither they went1  
nor should the soles of their feet have 
rest4 ,amidst those nations the ,lord   
should give them a trembling heart1     
failing eyes and sorrow of mind4 ,their 
life should hang in doubt4 ,they should 
fear night and day1 and have no         
assurance of life4 ,in the morning they 
should say1 ,would ,god it were even1   
and at even they should say1 ,would ,god
 it were morning4  ,their land should be
 made desolate and be an astonishment to
 the passer-by4 ,in its desolation it   
should keep the sabbaths they should    
fail to give it4 ,if they would not     
allow the land to rest in its sabbatic  
years1 the ,lord would cause it to have 
its ordained and natural rest by driving
 them out of it and allowing wind and   
rain and sun to take care of it and keep
 it fruitful4  ,later on all this       

warning of woe and terror of judgments  
was emphasized by the prophets against  
the ,jews4  ,they should become a nation
 of sorrows and acquainted with grief4  
,but while the ,lord should use the     
nations to correct them ,he would not   
make a full end of ,his own people4  ,he
 would use the nations as the rods of   
,his anger1 as the instruments of       
discipline4 ,he would use them by taking
 advantage of their own aggressive      
desires and ambitions1 then after using 
them ,he would turn upon them1 punish   
them for their pride and godless enmity 
to ,his people and make a full end of   
them4  ,then as the hour should draw    
nigh for the restoration to the land ,he
 would cause the ,jews as the national  
representatives of all ,israel to bud1  
to blossom and fill the face of the     
whole world with fruit4  ,they should be
 the first to be restored to the land4  
,they would go back in unbelief4  ,and  
mark how the prophecies have been       
fulfilled6  ,the illustration of this   

fulfillment finds its most tragic       
emphasis in the history of the ,jews    
since that day when their king1 the ,son
 of ,god and the ,holy ,one of ,israel  
was hung as a malefactor on a ,roman    
cross4  ,they have not only been        
wanderers in every land1 but they have  
suffered an agony no tongue can         
fittingly tell4  ,the men have been     
robbed4 ,they have been broken on the   
wheel4 ,they have been stretched on the 
rack4 ,they have been flayed alive4     
,they have been burned alive4 ,they have
 been sent to sea by thousands as herded
 cattle2 and they have been sent thither
 in rotting and sinking ships4 ,their   
wives and daughters have suffered worse 
than torture or death4 ,their children  
have been mutilated2 and when they      
failed to bring a full and satisfactory 
price in the public market1 men1 women  
and children have been given away as    
worthless slaves1 not worth even the    
price of a kennel dog4  ,they have been 
hunted like wild beasts of the mountain4

 ,like frightened beasts they have      
trembled at the sound of approaching    
footsteps and the sound of a shaken leaf
 has caused them to flee4  ,if their    
,lord was a man of sorrows and          
acquainted with grief1 truly may it be  
said of them that they have been through
 the centuries a nation of sorrows and  
acquainted with grief2 but the sorrows  
were unlike those of their ,lord4 ,he   
carried the sorrows1 the griefs and woes
 of others that ,he might relieve them2 
they carried their own sorrows put upon 
them by the wickedness and cruelty of   
others until tears were their meat and  
drink night and day4  ,behold how the   
prophecies have been fulfilled in       
respect to their land4  ,for centuries  
it has kept a sabbath of rest4  ,it has 
rested from the toil of man2 harvests   
have neither been sown nor reaped1 nor  
the vintage gathered save here and there
 as with the sword in one hand and the  
sickle in the other4  ,the land is there
 as a land just as it was in the days   

when the man of ,nazareth walked by the 
shores of blue ,galilee or trod the     
hills of ,judah4 ,the mountains of ,moab
 draw their lines of beauty against the 
measureless deeps of an orient sky4 ,the
 valleys lie between like fruitful      
bosoms where wheat and barley may grow4 
,the olive trees stand dusky in the     
deepening shade4 ,pomegranate and       
apricot stretch forth their weighted    
boughs and the grapes in ,eschol        
clusters hang purple in the slant of    
westering suns4 ,it is even yet a land  
of brooks and fountains of waters and   
men may still dig iron and brass from   
out of its rugged hills4  ,yonder in    
,bashan within the range of your eyes   
you may count sixty cities of stone1    
walls and roofs and windows of stone1   
great swinging doors of stone4 ,the     
centuries have beaten the wind1 the     
rain1 the storms and flying sand upon   
them4 ,they remain4 ,they have outworn  
the centuries4 ,they are silent4 ,no    
footfall is heard upon the threshold4   

,the houses are empty save for a fox1 a 
swiftly gliding viper1 or a belated     
,bedaween who may stable his horse in a 
deserted room where once a happy family 
dwelt in the long ago4  ,the stone      
cities are waiting and every stone in   
door and window seems to be crying out3 
,we are waiting till they return whose  
right alone it is to live and dwell     
here4  ,but what of the nations that    
scattered them and made them to suffer8 
,where is ,babylon the proud empire that
 took them captive2 where is ,babylon   
the golden city that saw them hang their
 harps upon the willows1 sit down upon  
the banks of the strange river and give 
way to weeping as they yearned for their
 own land again8  ,where is ,greece     
whose phalanxes swept through their     
fields and spoiled their vineyards8     
,where is ,rome whose iron legions took 
their city1 put thousand on thousands to
 the sword1 destroyed the beautiful     
temple once hallowed by a ,saviour's    
feet and then drew a ploughshare over   

,zion that it might become a ploughed   
field as foretold8 ,the ,rome that      
sculptured on its triumphal arches the  
figures of the captive ,jews it had led 
in boastful mockery at the chariot      
wheels of returning conquerors8  ,these 
nations in their ancient glory have     
disappeared1 the ,lord as ,he promised  
has made a full end of them4  ,but what 
of ,israel8  ,the ,jews have answered   
for them4  ,there are fifteen millions  
of ,jews to-day4  ,they are the most    
vital and vigorous race on the earth4   
,they are five times the number of all  
,israel who left ,egypt2 and they are   
but a sixth part of them--two tribes1   
,judah and ,benjamin4  ,they are the    
money makers and money loaners of the   
world4 ,they are the merchants1 the     
bankers1 the musicians1 the professors  
in school1 in college and university4   
,they are the philosophers1 the         
scientists1 the electricians and        
chemists4 ,they have furnished prime    
ministers1 statesmen1 judges and        

generals4 ,such a statesman as ,disraeli
 who glorified ,england1 such a general 
as ,massena whom ,napoleon characterized
 as the child of victory4  ,if to-day   
you should seek a representative in     
every department of human genius and    
endeavour you would find that           
representative to be either a ,jew or a 
,jewess4  ,fifteen millions of ,jews6   
,what are these fifteen millions of     
,jews but fifteen millions of proofs    
that the book we call the ,bible is     
true1 is inerrant1 infallible8  ,fifteen
 millions of demonstrations and fifteen 
millions of indubitable proofs4  ,by so 
much as they prove that ,god keeps faith
 with ,his warnings of woe and judgment1
 by so much will ,he keep faith with the
 promise of good ,he has made2 by so    
much is it sure ,he will yet plant them 
as ,he has said in their own land and   
will do so with ,his whole heart and    
,his whole soul4  ,already the sound of 
their footsteps may be heard on the     
homeward march4  ,zionism is now an     

immense fact4  ,the spirit of           
nationalism has come back to ,judah4    
,the blue and white flag of ,david has  
been unfurled4  ,diplomats in the       
nations' counsels agree there can be no 
settled peace between ,europe and the   
,east till the ,jew is back in his own  
land and ,judah once more a recognized  
political state2 that the ,jews are the 
only people all the nations will agree  
should have ,palestine1 and the words1  
,jewish ,state are words repeated in    
common speech round the globe4  ,england
 has driven the ,turk out of ,jerusalem4
  ,the corner-stone of a five million   
dollar university has been laid upon    
that ,mount of ,olives where once the   
,son of ,god amid its lonely shades     
prayed and agonized1 a begun fulfillment
 of the prophecy of ,zephaniah that in  
the latter days the ,lord would execute 
judgment on the ,gentile nations that   
should be gathered there and to ,his    
restored and delivered people turn again
 a pure speech1 no longer the stuttering

 and smattering phrase of ,yiddish1 but 
the old ,hebraic tongue of their        
fathers4  ,already there are papers in  
,jerusalem published in ,hebrew1 schools
 are taught and many speak in the       
ancient language4  ,many ,jews are going
 back to ,palestine4  ,many more are    
there now than returned from ,babylon4  
,they are going back as the ,word of    
,god foretold1 in utter and absolute    
unbelief and bitter repudiation of the  
idea that ,jesus of ,nazareth was their 
foretold and foreordained ,messiah4     
,they are going back with the vail upon 
their eyes and as blind as in the day   
when their fathers caused ,him to be    
crucified by ,roman hands4  ,they are   
going back to a time of anguish of which
 ,jeremiah solemnly warns as the day of 
,jacob's trouble1 and our ,lord         
describes as the tribulation1 the great 
one1 the like of which the world has    
never seen and will never see again4    
,they are going back to be set up by a  
league of ten nations and to enter into 

an alliance and covenant with its       
godless head as their political and     
false ,messiah4  ,they will suffer until
 there shall come upon that generation  
all the righteous blood shed upon the   
earth from the blood of righteous ,abel 
to the blood of ,zacharias1 the son of  
,bacharias who was slain between the    
temple and the altar1 and the blood of  
the ,son of ,god which they invoked in  
judgment on themselves and their        
children in that fatal hour when ,pilate
 convinced of the innocence of ,jesus   
and wishing to let ,him go had washed   
,his hands in water1 putting the        
responsibility of the crucifixion upon  
them as a people4 ,then it was they     
cried that terrible cry3  ,his blood be 
on us1 and on our children4  ,but then  
as now1 and always since the days of    
,elijah1 there was and is an elect      
remnant in ,israel4  ,for their sakes   
the ,lord will come4  ,he will descend  
with ,his host to ,mount ,sinai1 the    
place of the law2 the spot where ,israel

 rejected grace and sought that covenant
 which neither they nor their children  
have ever been able to keep4  ,he will  
sweep with ,his mighty army to          
,jerusalem4  ,he will overthrow the     
,gentile nations gathered there under   
the ,devil-incarnate ,antichrist4  ,he  
will stand upon the ,mount of ,olives4  
,the elect remnant will behold ,him     
come4  ,they will look upon ,him whom   
their fathers pierced4  ,they will fall 
down in anguish before ,him4  ,they will
 mourn for ,him as one mourneth for his 
only son4  ,they will take up the       
fifty-third chapter of ,isaiah and make 
it their confession of faith and bitter1
 self-accusing lamentation4  ,they will 
say3  ,we did esteem him stricken1      
smitten of ,god1 and afflicted4  ,but he
 was wounded for our transgressions1 he 
was bruised for our iniquities3 the     
chastisement of our peace was upon him2 
and with his stripes we are healed4     
,all we like sheep have gone astray2 we 
have turned every one to his own way2   

and the ,lord hath laid on him the      
iniquity of us all4  ,and in that hour1 
in that day of days shall there be a    
fountain opened to the house of ,david1 
and to the inhabitants of ,jerusalem1   
for sin and uncleanness4  ,the ,lord    
will cause ,jerusalem to be rebuilded   
upon her own heap4 ,he will ordain the  
erection of that temple in which ,he    
shall establish the throne of ,his      
holiness4  ,like ,david ,he will reign  
first over ,judah4 ,after that ,he will 
send ,gentile messengers like fishers to
 seek out and find the descendants of   
the ten lost tribes4 ,they will respond 
to the proclamation that will be made   
and to the search that will be          
instituted in that eastern land and     
among those peoples whither they were   
first carried away4 ,there will be many 
impostors among them2 but the ,lord will
 make them to pass under the rod as when
 the true sheep are struck with the     
owner's mark and as they take up their  
journey ,zionward all who are not of    

,israel will be purged from their midst4
  ,those who are really of the covenant 
people will be quickened1 regenerated1  
and when they enter the land will be    
welcomed by ,judah and ,benjamin4  ,they
 shall become one nation in the land    
upon the mountains of ,israel4 ,one king
 shall be king to them all4 ,they shall 
not be two nations any more1 neither    
shall they be divided into two kingdoms 
at all4 ,the ,lord will make a covenant 
of peace with them and multiply them and
 set ,his sanctuary in the midst of them
 forever4 ,his tabernacle shall be with 
them4 ,he will be their very ,god as ,he
 shall be the ,god of the whole earth4  
,they shall be ,his peculiar people4    
,all the ,gentiles shall know that ,he  
has set them apart for ,himself when    
they behold ,his temple erected in their
 midst1 the most wonderful building in  
all the earth4  ,and thus will be       
fulfilled the prophecy concerning       
,israel quoted and emphasized by the    
,holy ,spirit through the ,apostle ,paul

 that the ,deliverer should come to     
,zion and turn away ungodliness from    
,jacob and that all ,israel--that       
is--,israel united and as twelve tribes1
 should be saved4  ,it is at the coming 
of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 then and   
not till then that the solemn and       
covenant promises of ,god made to       
,abraham1 to ,isaac and to ,jacob will  
be fulfilled and united1 redeemed1      
regenerated and saved ,israel set in    
their own land as the center and channel
 of blessing to the earth4  ,and because
 there can be no permanent peace in the 
world till ,israel has been restored2   
and because ,i wish to see1 not only    
peace among the nations and ,israel     
reaping the blessings of the            
unconditional covenant of ,god's grace  
and unchanged faithfulness1 but because 
,i yearn to see the hour when the ,lord 
shall enter upon ,his own inheritance   
and justify ,himself before heaven and  
earth as ,judah's ,lord1 as ,israel's   
,god and turn the accusation of ,his    

cross3 ,this is ,jesus of ,nazareth1 the
 king of the ,jews into the pean of ,his
 coronation as such1 ,i preach the      
,second ,coming4    ,,vi   ,only at the 
,second ,coming of the ,christ of ,god  
,will a ,government of ,everlasting     
,righteousness and ,peace be            
,established ,upon the ,earth   ,,it was
 the original purpose of ,god to make   
the people of ,israel the head of       
nations1 place them in ,palestine as the
 geographical center of the earth1 make 
them its political center1 send ,his own
 ,son to be their incarnate king1 use   
them as a channel of earthly and        
spiritual blessing and make this world  
the most perfect and happiest spot in   
all the wide universe4  ,they failed to 
meet their opportunity4  ,then the ,lord
 transferred the possibility of world   
rulership from the ,jews to the         
,gentiles4  ,he did this by handing     
political power and authority to        
,nebuchadnezzar1 the king of ,babylon4  
,this rulership and sway of the world   

descended in its ordained and foretold  
succession down through ,medo-,persia   
with its incorporation of ,babylon1     
through the temporary but immensely     
extended empire of ,greece which under  
,alexander included both ,babylon and   
,medo-,persia1 and after that the       
colossal and magic empire of ,rome1     
swallowing up as it did the three       
empires or kingdoms which preceded it4  
,since the division of ,rome into       
,western and ,eastern empires the       
rulership of the world has been         
maintained by the various nations       
composed of those people dwelling in the
 territory once occupied by ,rome4  ,the
 world has been ruled by ,turks1        
,spaniards1 ,germans1 by the ,french and
 by the ,english4  ,the ,gentile nations
 in this special and prophetic territory
 have been the world rulers4  ,it has   
been peculiarly ,gentile rulership and  
in ,scripture is called1 ,the times of  
the ,gentiles4  ,gentile times1 ,gentile
 rulership has lasted for twenty-five   

hundred years4  ,it has been an amazing 
rule4  ,it has been a rulership that has
 revealed the genius1 the brilliance and
 the ,god-given powers of man4  ,it has 
been a rulership that has revealed the  
iniquity1 the sin1 the mad ambition and 
devil-inspired policies of man4  ,in all
 the twenty-five hundred years of this  
,gentile rule there have not been one   
hundred consecutive years of universal  
peace4  ,it has been twenty-five hundred
 years of war1 of rapine1 murder and    
measureless lust4  ,cities have been    
destroyed1 fields have been laid waste1 
women have endured the last outrage4    
,children have been orphaned1 right has 
been upon the scaffold and wrong upon   
the throne1 prison chains have been for 
virtue1 silk and velvet for vice1       
civilization after civilization has been
 destroyed1 the earth has been filled   
with anguish beyond the power of tongue 
or pen to describe1 and blood enough has
 been shed through man's inhumanity to  
man to float all the navies of the      

world1 and money and treasure enough    
wasted to have provided a palace for    
every man and woman on earth4  ,a little
 less than five years ago men everywhere
 were talking of peace and safety4      
,christianity and civilization were     
walking hand in hand4  ,christianity or 
that which professed to be ,christianity
 had accepted all the claimed benefits  
of civilization4  ,rapid transit1 the   
telephone1 all the triumphs of applied  
science were announced as the           
by-products of the ,gospel4 ,even though
 the churches were becoming more or less
 empty and the people were turning away 
to other centers of instruction or      
enlightenment or consolation or hope1   
preachers were everywhere and with great
 insistence announcing that the world   
was growing better every day and that we
 were rapidly approaching the purple and
 the gold of millennial times4 ,the hour
 was not far distant when the lion and  
the lamb should lie down together4      
,there was much talk about the          

fatherhood of ,god and the brotherhood  
of man4 ,people were coming together and
 having a better and more disinterested 
estimate of each other4 ,religion was   
ceasing to be dogmatic and precise and  
becoming more and more a profession that
 was free from restraint4  ,christian   
ministers in the pulpit and supposedly  
wise men in the counsels of the nations 
with optimistic utterance announced that
 the days of barbarism had passed away1 
the brutality of war was at an end4 ,men
 and nations would no longer adjourn    
their differences to the field of       
battle4 ,a magnificent palace of peace  
had been erected in that country that   
had for centuries been the bloody ground
 where ,europe settled its political    
issues4 ,in this splendid home of       
arbitration the nations were to meet as 
friends and brothers and calmly arrange 
and solve all matters that had hitherto 
kept them menacingly apart4  ,war had   
become so abhorrent to what was called  
the ,christian sense of the nations that

 mothers were exhorted to banish from   
the nurseries anything that might       
suggest the thought of war1 such as     
trumpets1 drums or toy guns4 ,so        
completely had the peace idea pervaded  
the mind of the people1 the idea that   
peace had come to stay and nothing must 
be tolerated that would even hint at    
war1 that a soldier or a sailor wearing 
the uniform of his country was no longer
 acceptable in a public place1 were it a
 restaurant1 a music hall or even a     
church4  ,men who were opposed to       
spending a dollar to make a nation ready
 for the possibility of war were hailed 
as the advanced thinkers and the men    
worthy of the suffrage of the people2   
while those who contended human nature  
had not been changed1 that a nation was 
simply the individual grown large and   
the jealousies1 the covetousness and    
ambitions of governments would always   
make it possible for the strong to prey 
upon the weak and for the unprincipled  
under the guise of national necessity to

 attack their unprepared neighbours and 
therefore just as much as a city rests  
in confidence with the presence within  
it of a well-equipped police force1     
equally so the comfort and security of  
peace could be best maintained by a     
nation governed by right principles     
whose army and navy were ready to resist
 successfully any unjust assault upon   
its honour or integrity1 were treated   
with pity1 if not scorn1 as still under 
the spell of benighted and barbaric     
days4  ,peace and safety6 these were the
 pleasant words that lulled a           
pleasure-seeking and money-making       
generation into self-satisfied rest and 
the mirage of millennial days already   
arrived4  ,then1 suddenly1 like a bolt  
out of a clear sky1 or the overflow in  
raging lava tide of an unsuspected      
volcano1 the most stupendous1 ghastly   
and brutally devilish war the world has 
ever known was on in all its fiendish   
fury1 sweeping from ,england to the     
,euphrates and from the ,rhine and      

,danube on the north to the glittering  
sands of ,africa on the south1 rolling  
its waves of blood and sending its      
sickening and indescribable horrors     
through those lands and among those     
people at one time constituting the four
 kingdoms to whom ,god had committed the
 rulership of the world2 that region    
occupied by ,babylon1 ,medo-,persia1    
,greece and ,rome and whose             
administration of world affairs is      
called the times of the ,gentiles4      
,to-night ten millions of the world's   
flower of manhood lie rotting in their  
graves4 ,six millions of women and      
children have been starved to death4    
,women have been unspeakably ruined1    
children mutilated and flung as helpless
 debris upon the charity of strangers1  
suffering their orphaned estate and not 
knowing why4  ,all the genius1 the      
science and invention of man with poured
 out1 unlimited wealth1 have been       
drafted to produce the most terrifically
 destructive means of war4 ,all the     

boasted progress and culture of the     
preceding centuries were called upon to 
wage the contest until it should        
affright even the participants          
themselves4 ,clouds of poison gas filled
 the once sweet and vital air of spring 
time and summer mornings4 ,human beings 
wearing hideous masks and looking like  
other world monsters rushed in mad      
onslaught upon one another4 ,they       
burrowed in holes and trenches like wild
 beasts concealed in their lair and     
waiting for the prey4 ,through the      
startled heavens winged things like huge
 vampires vomiting fire and blood took  
their way over cities1 towns and        
unprotected hospitals1 leaving behind   
them the dead1 the dying and the        
tortured4 ,hunger with its sunken       
cheeks1 and pestilence with its green   
eyes1 its slavering lips have trod the  
earth till horror with wordless anguish 
has kept vigil by the blackened         
hearthstones of ruined homes and        
deserted firesides4  ,to-night1 the     

fields of ,flanders where the poppies   
grow and where the dead who died too    
soon and lie almost too thick to count1 
are as though a mighty juggernaut had   
rolled its fearful wheels over them1    
crushing both man and earth together    
into one monstrous pulp of hopeless     
ruin4  ,to-night ,france1 where the     
lilies were wont to bloom1 is torn and  
ripped in all the one-time beauty and   
fascination of her white and winding    
roads1 poplar fringed1 in the culture of
 her fruited gardens1 her orchards and  
her royal forests1 as though some       
monstrous creation of pre-,adamite days 
had survived and broken through all     
restraint of all the ages to riot and   
gorge himself with unlimited delight of 
destruction4  ,all this after two       
thousand years of professed             
,christianity and the constant iteration
 that the ,church was slowly winning its
 way to the ruler-ship of the world2    
that each hour the world was growing    
better and more and more the principles 

of the ,christ of ,god dominating the   
universal heart of man4  ,the world     
awoke to find its heart unchanged and   
war with aggressive animalism still the 
underlying and primal force in man4     
,to-night in face of all this1 in face  
of the solemn declaration of the ,son of
 ,god that during the whole time of ,his
 absence there would be war and rumours 
of war1 and specially within the        
territory once occupied by ,rome2 that  
there would be distress of nations with 
perplexity1 men's hearts failing them   
for fear for looking after the things   
that should be coming on the earth2 that
 the people like the waves of the sea   
should be roaring1 uttering their       
discordant voices in the thunder of     
protest and bitter discontent1 breaking 
the bonds of old customs and lashing the
 times with lawlessness and             
unprecedented crime2 in face of the     
warning of the ,apostle ,paul that in   
the last days1 that is to say in the    
closing hours of this age1 there should 

be1 not peaceful but perilous times2    
that evil men should wax worse and      
worse1 deceiving and being deceived2 in 
the face of the inspired assurance of   
the ,apostle ,james that as this        
dispensation should draw to its close   
,capital and ,labour should stand in    
bitter attitude to each other2 that the 
accumulated wealth of a special class   
called rich men should be heaped        
together that they might be spoiled and 
that miseries should come upon them2    
that on the one side should be the      
aggression of the profiteers and on the 
other the violence of those who would   
refuse to be exploited2 in face of this 
assurance of industrial and class war2  
in face of the fact that the softest    
toned apostle whose pen is always       
transcribing the word love1 and who has 
reached the highest and most sublime    
definition of ,god as love2 in face of  
the fact that this apostle affirms the  
hour will come when the whole world     
under religious1 political and devilish 

inspiration will rush to conflict1 that 
everywhere will be heard the tramp of   
armed men and the gathering of the      
nations for a war such as the world has 
not yet seen2 in face of the picture    
which this apostle of love paints where 
the armies of the world are seen        
gathered in battle array against the    
,lord ,christ and ,his right to reign2  
in the face of this divine warning the  
statesmen of the world are assembled in 
counsel at ,paris1 the world's capital  
of pleasure1 in a palace once dedicated 
to lust and wanton self-gratification1  
whose panelled ceiling and mirrored     
walls are filled with and reflect the   
scenes and glorification of war1 that by
 the stroke of a pen1 by a series of    
resolutions1 they may constitute a      
league of nations bulking so big that   
every threatened wave of future war may 
be flung back as when the dykes of      
,holland reject the sea4  ,the          
astonishing and suggestive thing is that
 in the making and remaking of the map  

of ,europe and ,asia undertaken by the  
framers of the league1 they are1 all    
unconsciously1 restoring the outlines of
 the old ,roman ,empire and preparing   
the way for the final and desperate     
revival of ,rome under the form of ten  
confederate nations1 with its last      
kaiser1 that dark and woful figure1 the 
man of sin1 the son of perdition1 the   
,antichrist4  ,and there are ,christian 
teachers who see in this league another 
herald of the millennium before ,christ 
comes which they so sedulously preached 
previously to the war4 ,they see in this
 league an evidence that the ,lord      
,jesus ,christ as the ,prince of ,peace 
is in reality reigning over the earth   
and bending the nations to ,his will for
 the reign of peace4  ,in the whole     
history of theological exegesis and     
interpretation ,i know of nothing so    
utterly faulty1 illogical and wholly    
unscriptural as that exegesis which     
teaches the angel song at ,bethlehem to 
be the announcement of the birth of our 

,lord ,jesus ,christ as the ,prince of  
,peace and that as such ,he should      
establish it among the nations after    
,his ascension to heaven and during ,his
 absence from the world4  ,the angels   
sang glory to ,god in the highest and on
 earth1 peace to men of good will4  ,the
 angel who spoke to the shepherds       
keeping the temple sheep for the morning
 and the evening sacrifice was          
testifying to them that there was no    
longer need to keep the sheep for such a
 purpose4 ,the day of animal sacrifices 
had passed1 the living ,god had provided
 the true sacrifice1 ,he who was born   
beneath the chaplet of heaven's music1  
the ,lamb of ,god ordained before the   
foundation of the world4 ,he had been   
born into the world that ,he might make 
peace by the blood of ,his cross1 not   
between man and man1 not between nation 
and nation1 but between man and ,god4   
,he had been born to die and by ,his    
death reconcile a rebel world to ,god2  
on the basis of this sacrifice yet to be

 and when ,he should have risen from the
 dead as witness of the efficacy of ,his
 death ,he would bring peace to every   
soul that should be of good will--every 
soul that should surrender to the will  
of ,god by believing on ,him1 offering  
,him by faith as a sacrifice and        
claiming ,him as a substitute4 ,every   
such soul should be at peace with1 and  
have the peace of1 ,god4  ,this was the 
meaning of that natal hour at           
,bethlehem4  ,the angels were not       
singing over ,him as the ,prince of     
,peace who had come to abolish war among
 the nations1 but as the ordained       
sacrifice who should bring peace between
 the individual man and his ,god4 ,and  
yet--,he is to be the ,prince of ,peace 
and reign and rule as such over the     
earth1 putting an end to war and        
establishing perfect peace among the    
nations4  ,the promise of ,his reign and
 rule as the ,prince of ,peace is       
clearly set forth in ,scripture2 as it  
is written in the book of the prophet   

,isaiah3  ,unto us a child is born1 unto
 us a son is given4 ,his name shall be  
called ,wonderful1 ,counsellor1 ,the    
mighty ,god1 ,the everlasting ,father1  
,the ,prince of ,peace4 ,of the increase
 of his peace and government there shall
 be no end4  ,but when8 ,where8         
,listen3  ,upon the throne of ,david1   
and upon his kingdom to order it4  ,and 
hear what ,gabriel says to ,mary when he
 comes to announce to her that she has  
been chosen of ,almighty ,god to give   
birth to the ,messiah of ,israel4  ,the 
angel says3  ,thou shalt call his name  
,jesus 4 4 4 ,he shall be great1 and    
shall be called the ,son of the         
,highest3 and the ,lord ,god shall give 
unto him the throne of his father       
,david3  ,and he shall reign over the   
house of ,jacob forever2 and of his     
kingdom there shall be no end4  ,he is  
to be the ,prince of ,peace when ,he    
sits upon the throne of united ,israel  
in their own land and not before4  ,he  
was born in fulfillment of the prophecy 

of ,isaiah4  ,he was a ,son given4 ,the 
,son of ,god who was ,god the ,son4  ,he
 was a ,son given and became a child    
born4  ,he grew up to the station of    
manhood4  ,he entered upon ,his         
pre-arranged ministry4  ,at the         
appointed hour and to the very second   
foretold by ,gabriel to ,daniel and in  
the exact manner announced by the       
prophet ,zechariah ,he rode into        
,jerusalem1 went into the temple1       
claiming it as ,his ,father's house of  
prayer and by so much declaring ,himself
 to be the ,son of the ,highest and the 
heir of ,david's throne4  ,the shout of 
the multitude had announced ,him        
officially4  ,they had said3  ,hosanna6 
,blessed is the ,king of ,israel that   
cometh in the name of the ,lord4  ,in   
crying this aloud they were fulfilling  
the prediction of ,zechariah4  ,he had1 
under the vision of ,god1 looked forward
 to this hour and with the ,spirit of   
,god upon him had exhorted the people   
who should be alive when ,jesus should  

come to acclaim him4  ,he said3  ,shout1
 ,o daughter of ,jerusalem2 behold thy  
,king cometh unto thee2 he is just1 and 
having salvation 7political as well as  
spiritual salvation72 lowly1 and riding 
upon an ass1 and upon a colt the foal of
 an ass4  ,the multitude were shouting  
as ,zechariah said they should shout4   
,they were confessing that ,he who came 
that day up the slopes of ,zion was the 
,prince of ,judah and ,king of ,israel4 
,he came to ,his own1 but ,his own      
received ,him not4  ,instead of the     
diadem of ,david ,he got a crown of     
thorns4 ,instead of the sceptre of      
,israel ,he got the vine stick of a     
,roman centurion thrust through ,his    
rope-tied hands4 ,instead of a throne   
,he got a malefactor's cross4 ,instead  
of a robe of royal purple ,he got the   
winding sheet of the dead4 ,instead of a
 palace ,he got a borrowed grave4  ,the 
,jews have paid the price of that       
blindness and betrayal4 ,the man-slayer 
who unwittingly slew his neighbour or   

was even ignorant of it at the moment   
sooner or later found he had to flee    
from the avenger of blood instantly upon
 his track4 ,he became an exile from his
 home1 forced to dwell in a provided    
place called the city of refuge4 ,he    
could not return to his home till the   
second coming of a priest4  ,the ,jews  
were guilty1 as a nation1 of            
manslaughter4  ,they were deceived and  
involved by their leaders4 ,they really 
did not know that ,he whom they hounded 
to death at the last was not only the   
covenant king of ,israel1 and the ,holy 
,one of their fathers1 but the ,prince  
of life4  ,because of their blindness1  
blunder and sin they were cast out of   
the land4 ,because1 even though in      
ignorance1 they slew their ,king1 they  
were exiled by the judgment of ,god from
 their home4 ,they deprived the ,lord of
 that land that was ,his through the    
covenant of ,abraham1 and the ,lord in  
turn deprived them of the right of      
dwelling in the land4 ,they should be   

exiles so long as ,he was an exile4 ,nor
 can they return till ,he comes the     
second time as a priest1 not after the  
order of ,aaron1 but ,melchisedec2 for  
it is written that ,he shall be both a  
king and priest upon ,his throne4  ,only
 can the ,jews return and be owned      
nationally of the ,lord when ,he shall  
come4  ,he will come and ,he will come  
as the ,prince of ,peace4  ,he will not 
come1 ,i repeat1 with the olive branch  
in ,his hand and the cooing dove        
nestling upon ,his shoulder4  ,nay6 not 
at all6  ,he will come as the ,avenger  
of ,his elect1 as the ,son of man1 as   
the judge of all flesh4  ,he will come  
to overthrow the combination of ,devil  
and man4  ,his ,coming will be the      
climax of old and outworn ages1 the     
beginning of the new4  ,the glory of    
,his ,coming cannot be described4       
,through years of meditation and        
continued effort at description ,i have 
exhausted my vocabulary and worn to     
tatters the oft-repeated phrases with   

which ,i have sought with heart full of 
adoring enthusiasm to announce the      
wonders of that hour4  ,if all the suns 
and systems were turned into speech till
 every flaming center of light were an  
adjective with increasing emphasis of   
qualification and expression the attempt
 to put into words the glory of that    
,coming would be a pitiful and          
overwhelming failure4  ,he will come    
surrounded by an innumerable host whose 
hallelujahs shall so vibrate that the   
very heavens will roll apart at their   
soundings4  ,the ,lord will come in ,his
 threefold glory1 the glory of the      
,father1 the glory of the angels and    
,his own glory3 the glory of ,his       
eternal and unbegun sonship with the    
,father1 as chief of the angels and as  
that man who is very ,god1 as that ,god 
who is real and immortal man4 ,then will
 ,he set up the kingdom1 the government 
for which the ages have dreamed and     
groaned and guessed and prayed4  ,that  
hour of hours6  ,satan bound1 iniquity  

overthrown1 ,god and ,christ and the    
,holy ,spirit ruling in the lives of    
men4 ,the very air surcharged with the  
righteousness of ,god2 so surcharged    
that he who thinks a lie shall fall dead
 in the tracks where he meditated it4   
,no longer need of judge1 of jury1 of   
prison bars1 nor hangman's rope1 nor    
electric chair4  ,an hour when no longer
 the scarlet poppies of hate1 of        
jealousies and mad ambition shall bud   
and blossom into war4 ,war over forever1
 swords beaten into ploughshares and    
spears into pruning hooks4 ,every man   
the same right as any other man1 the    
right to sunshine1 to air1 to water1 the
 beauty of the landscape and all the    
usufruct of earth4  ,that hour when no  
man shall call another his master2 when 
no longer a man shall toil and bend his 
back and break his heart for a stipend  
of bread2 for a hole in the ground and  
the worm of corruption as mistress of   
his bed4  ,that hour when life shall be 
worth while and when the centuries of   

peace and perfectness of actual being   
shall pass on till they are counted as  
eternity4  ,and because this government 
of peace and splendour and all the      
outflowing possibilities of a world in  
which righteousness shall reign and ,god
 shall be first can be brought about    
only by and at the ,second ,coming of   
our ,lord ,jesus ,christ2 because until 
,he does so come wars and sorrows and   
the darkness of sin will continue2      
because all the legislation of man and  
all the leagues of nations will utterly 
fail to establish permanent peace2      
because in spite of the best endeavours 
of all the merely moral forces in the   
earth there is nothing can keep this    
system called the world from going on   
the rocks2 because only the hand of     
,god's ,christ can break the bands of   
iniquity1 quiet earth's fever pulses and
 putting down all authority bring in the
 peace that never can be broken2 because
 when ,he comes the government of right 
and truth and the life that is really   

worth while shall come2 and because from
 my heart ,i want to see that longed-for
 hour of heaven on earth1 ,i preach the 
,second ,coming of our ,lord ,jesus     
,christ4    ,,vii   ,it is at the       
,second ,coming of ,our ,lord ,jesus    
,christ that the ,earth ,will be        
,delivered from the ,bondage of         
,corruption and ,transformed into the   
,paradise of ,god   ,,when man fell     
creation fell4  ,it fell because        
creation in respect to this earth was   
headed up in him4  ,god placed a ban    
upon it1 a restraint of its             
fruitfulness4  ,instead ,he gave liberty
 to thorns and briars and poisonous1    
creeping things4  ,you may plant your   
garden1 you may plant your orchard1 set 
your vines and sow your fields4 ,you may
 go to sleep and rest and think your    
work is done1 that nothing remains but  
to awake again and receive the          
looked-for fruit and harvest4  ,when you
 do awake you will find the poisonous1  
creeping things have climbed over your  

wall and fence1 have glided in among the
 good seed1 flung their tentacles of    
death about them and are slowly1 surely 
strangling the life out of them4  ,if   
you would have your garden to grow1 your
 orchard to yield its fruit1 your       
vineyard to hang out its purple         
clusters1 your harvests to ripen in the 
kiss of sun and developing touch of     
caressing winds1 then you must rise     
early and toil late4 ,for every acre of 
worthful land you must crown your brow  
with the sweat of unceasing and exacting
 toil4  ,the earth is in bondage4 ,it is
 held in the close1 the gripping and    
relentless bonds of corruption4         
,everywhere and in all things is the    
corruption of the dead4  ,the very air  
you breathe is dust from the mingled    
bones of the dead4 ,the earth is crammed
 with the dead of man and beast4 ,the   
grain that is reaped and the flowers    
that bloom grow forth from the fatness  
of the grave and the impulse of         
corruption1 watered by tears distilled  

from the heartache of the generations   
old who have sorrowed above that grave  
and wept and hoped in vain4  ,put your  
ear to the bosom of old mother earth and
 you will hear a moaning and lament like
 unto women in travail who seek to bring
 to the birth4  ,i am told the whole    
creation groaneth and travaileth in pain
 together until now2 that it is on the  
tiptoe of expectation with neck and head
 stretched out waiting for the ,coming  
of the ,son of ,god and all the sons of 
glory4  ,o yes6 creation in all her     
borders is crying out for the ,son of   
,god to come4  ,it is crying out from   
all its rivers1 from the moan of the    
sea1 in the shiver of earthquake and the
 rush of the lava tide from the red     
throat of the flaming volcano4 ,it is   
crying out in the heat of burning       
deserts1 in every pain that is felt1 in 
every tear of anguish that stains the   
face and speaks the agony of the heart1 
in every clod that falls with its accent
 of woe upon the coffin lid1 in all the 

bitterness1 the shame and tragedy of a  
sin-smitten and ,devil-hurt world2      
everything in nature from rock and worm 
to man is crying out3 ,come1 ,lord      
,jesus1 and build again this broken and 
ruined earth of thine4  ,he will hear   
the cry4  ,when ,he comes ,he will take 
off the ban4  ,he will deliver from     
corruption4  ,the earth will no longer  
shiver as an aspen4  ,fear will no      
longer walk forth like a tyrant and set 
the pulses beating or hold them         
strangling4  ,briars and thorns and     
fiend-like weeds and smothering1 choking
 things that have kept the earth in     
barrenness where ,eden-like gardens     
should have bloomed1 and1 thank ,god1   
all graves1 will disappear4 ,the desert 
shall bloom as the rose1 the earth shall
 be renewed1 made beautiful1 and all    
creation loosened from its prison bonds 
shall sing and echo with unending       
harmonies in every freely fruiting and  
growing thing throughout all its        
delivered and happy borders4  ,for a    

thousand golden years under a new       
heavens and beneath a pure sky where the
 air shall flow round it as a river of  
crystal from the throne of ,god the     
earth will roll onward to the music of  
its sister spheres keeping time in the  
great diapason of the universe that owns
 and celebrates the glory of ,god2 then1
 at last1 it will pass through gates of 
fire and come forth into that new orbit1
 as that new earth wherein is no more   
dividing sea1 storm swept and full of   
the wrecks of ships1 of greater wrecks  
of hopes1 and tiled with the white bones
 of the dead2 that new earth where there
 shall be no more night with its hidden 
evil and its long and darksome hours in 
which the sufferer yearns for morning   
light1 no more tears1 nor sorrow1 nor   
pain1 nor any more that black and ever  
multiplying horror they call death2 that
 new earth that shall be no longer the  
footstool1 but the exalted and special  
throne of ,god--the center of the       
universe4  ,into this new and perfect   

earth the ,church shall descend--a      
company of redeemed1 blood-washed1      
immortal sons of ,god4  ,the ,son of    
,god and ,god the ,son ,himself shall   
descend and dwell there4 ,then for the  
first time shall the children of ,god   
behold in ,him the full lineament of    
their ,father's face2 for1 though ,he be
 the eternal ,son ,he shall be seen and 
known as the everlasting ,father1 or the
 ,father of the everlasting age4  ,the  
onlooking worlds as they swing in their 
chorus of adoration about this radiant  
and omnipotent center will learn and    
proclaim the immense truth that this    
earth was created1 not merely as an     
expression of the wisdom1 genius and    
might of ,god in ,his function as a     
creator1 but as the arena of redemption1
 as the spot whence in all the wide     
empire of ,his power might be known and 
felt the pulse beat of ,his heart4 ,as  
the innumerable hosts of heaven sweep   
around this center of grace and         
redemption1 as they behold beings who   

once were lost in sin1 wrecked and      
ruined beyond human hope or angelic aid1
 now immortal1 holy1 happy sons of ,god1
 they will break forth in ever          
increasing songs of adoration and shall 
say as they sing till the universe shall
 repeat it again and again3  ,behold1   
the glory of ,god is not alone in his   
majesty and might1 in his holiness and  
omnipotence1 but in his love4  ,they    
shall take up that marvellous passage in
 ,john #c3 #af and cry it aloud so that 
it will ring with accumulating praise to
 ,him who first uttered it3  ,for ,god  
so loved the world1 that he gave his    
only begotten ,son1 that whosoever      
believeth in him should not perish1 but 
have everlasting life4  ,and all the    
host of heaven shall proclaim3  ,god is 
love4 ,god is love4  ,all this          
consummation is to find its initial at  
the ,second ,coming of our ,lord ,jesus 
,christ4  ,and because ,i want to see   
this earth freed from the stain of sin1 
the torture of pain1 the accents of     

sorrow1 the terror of tears1 the hour of
 dying1 the black and shameful grave1   
the trench of corruption and the        
,devil's ministry of death2 because ,i  
want to see a worth-while world where no
 longer the earth shall turn from night 
to morn and then from morn to           
disappointing night again1 but shall    
glow forever in the light of an endless 
morn2 because ,i want to see a world    
where the purposes of ,god in love1 in  
benediction and unfailing grace are no  
longer seemingly contradicted by        
untoward events and conditions1 by      
problems that with the best apologies   
for the divine character no human genius
 can solve or balance1 but are written  
in high and lifted testimony brighter   
than the stars of any night and stronger
 shining than any sun of day2 because ,i
 want to see a world where man shall be 
the enthronement of ,god and shall      
glorify ,him as such1 and where every   
atom of earth shall be full of ,his love
 and redolent with ,his praise1 and     

where life shall be only another name   
for joy and the unending and the ever   
new unfoldment of it1 the actual joy of 
unreserved1 unlimited living2 and       
because this desire in all its full     
accomplishment can come and the first   
notes of infinite triumph alone be      
struck and the song begin by the ,coming
 of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ--,i preach 
,his ,second ,coming4    ,,viii   ,the  
,coming of ,our ,lord ,jesus ,christ for
 ,his ,church is the ,most ,imminent    
,event on the ,horizon of ,time         
,,between us and the ,coming of our     
,lord ,jesus ,christ in glory to ,mount 
,zion to set up and establish ,his      
kingdom there are many predicted and    
consecutively fixed events4  ,between us
 and the moment when our ,lord shall    
suddenly and secretly descend to take   
the ,church to ,himself into the place  
prepared1 hold her in security above the
 woe hour coming on all them that dwell 
on the face of the earth and then bring 
her back to reign and rule with ,him in 

glory1 there is not a single1 predicted 
event2 and this--in the very nature of  
the case4  ,in the nature of the case   
because this age in which we live is a  
parenthesis between the kingdom         
postponed upon the one side and the     
kingdom to be brought in upon the other4
  ,in this age ,god is not seeking to   
convert the world1 but to take out of it
 a people for ,his ,name4  ,it is an age
 of selection and therefore an age of   
election4  ,when you take some things   
out of the midst of other things there  
will be1 not only a first one1 but      
necessarily a last one4  ,as there was a
 first one elected1 called out and taken
 into union with a risen ,lord1 so must 
there be a last one who shall be called 
through the ,gospel1 quickened by the   
,spirit and bound up in indissoluble    
union with a living ,lord4  ,when that  
last one is called and responds to the  
life-giving power of the ,spirit the    
,lord will descend into the upper air   
and take the completed and corporate    

,church to ,himself--the dead raised1   
the living changed4  ,when that last    
elect one will be called you do not     
know1 it is not known to a single soul  
on earth4  ,since you do not know when  
the last elect of ,god shall be called1 
and it is sure the ,lord will come when 
that last elect one is called1 then you 
do not know when the ,lord will come2   
and so far as you are concerned1 and so 
far as any revelation otherwise is      
given1 it may be any hour and1          
therefore1 any moment2 consequently the 
,coming of the ,lord for ,his ,church   
is--imminent4  ,thus the imminency of   
the ,lord's ,coming for ,his ,church is 
grounded on election4  ,imminency is so 
absolutely linked up with election that 
you cannot deny imminency without       
denying election2 and to deny election  
is to deny ,god ,himself1 deny ,him in  
the very essence of ,his own            
prerogative1 the prerogative of         
foreordination1 of decree4  ,the        
imminency of the ,lord's ,coming for    

,his ,church is grounded on the ,lord's 
own declaration that ,he is coming for  
her as a thief comes4  ,this is ,his    
declaration and warning to the ,church  
at ,sardis1 that ,church which is the   
symbol of ,protestantism in the closing 
hours of the age4 ,the warning is given 
to the pastor1 through the pastor to the
 ,church and through the local assembly 
at ,sardis to the whole ,church4  ,this 
is what the risen ,lord actually says3  
,remember therefore how thou hast       
received and heard2 and hold fast1 and  
repent4 ,if therefore thou shalt not    
watch1 ,i will arrive over thee as a    
thief1 and thou shalt not know what hour
 ,i will arrive over thee4  ,the        
characteristics of thief coming are     
marked and clear4  ,the thief does not  
come with strident voice1 with          
thunderous noise1 nor in open daylight1 
but between the midnight and the morn1  
with shodden feet1 silently1 softly1 and
 takes the treasure while all in the    
house are sunken in the depths of sleep4

  ,when the sunbeams of the morning pelt
 the eyelids of the laggard sleepers    
they awake to find the thief has come   
and gone and in his going has taken the 
treasure with him4  ,if the symbol be of
 avail and not a mere exercise in       
logomachy then will the ,lord1 indeed1  
descend in the moral and spiritual night
 of the world while men are sleeping and
 in fancied security pleasantly         
dreaming4  ,he will descend unseen1     
unnoted4 ,if men shall hear the sound of
 a trump it will have no greater        
significance to their spiritually deaf  
ears than any other passing sound4 ,he  
will take1 not the great house of       
religious profession1 but those alone in
 that profession who have been          
regenerated and are indwelt by the      
,spirit1 the dead who have fallen asleep
 in ,his name and the living who abide  
in ,him4  ,above all--imminency is      
grounded in the integrity of the ,son of
 ,god and ,his apostles4  ,unless all   
language is a deception2 unless the     

promises of ,god are a baited lie2      
unless the apostles of ,christ are the  
most shameless of all wanton tricksters2
 unless the ,son of ,god ,himself is the
 coolest traitor to truth who ever      
fooled the trusting hearts of needy men2
 unless ,he is the one being of all     
others who had the subtle and effective 
genius of making promises that fill the 
ear and are broken to the heart2 unless 
,he was the most skillful of all        
deceivers and rejoiced with malignant   
delight in deceiving the souls of men   
and thus proved ,himself to be not the  
,son of ,god at all but the very son of 
falsehood1 then seeing ,he is the       
reverse of all that1 is in truth the    
very ,son of ,god and truth itself1 by  
,his own unqualified statement1 by its  
very character as exhortative warning   
,his ,coming must be and is--imminent4  
,it is on the threshold of unfolding    
history and the gates of heaven are ajar
 ready for ,his ,coming4 ,so imminent is
 it that there is nothing between us and

 that event of events but the shout of  
command1 the voice of the archangel and 
the shattering sound of the trump4 ,so  
imminent that there is not the thickness
 of an eyelash between us and that      
moment when the door in heaven shall    
open wide and ,his voice with all       
compelling power shall say1 ,come up    
hither4  ,listen to what ,he says3      
,watch therefore3 for ye know not what  
hour your ,lord doth come4  ,watch6     
because ,he is coming4  ,watch6 because 
you do not know what hour ,he will come4
  ,watch6 because as the householder ,he
 said ,he might come in any one of the  
four watches1 at even1 at midnight1 in  
the cockcrowing or in the morning4  ,he 
did not come at even4  ,surely the      
midnight has come4 ,it is dark enough   
spiritually4 ,there is not only enough  
of sorrow1 sin1 confusion and unbelief  
in a godless world1 but rank treason to 
the truth and repudiation of the written
 ,word in the professing ,church to call
 it spiritual midnight4  ,it seems      

sometimes like the cockcrowing4  ,there 
are sounds of chanticleer1 blasts of    
trumpets1 changing of the guards and    
sentinels of old customs and ways1 and  
echoes in the events now unrolling that 
prelude the great morning and the great 
day4  ,there is nothing certain about   
the hour but its--uncertainty4  ,watch6 
because you may be alive at ,his        
,coming4  ,that is the word of ,holy    
,scripture and not my suggestion4       
,listen to the ,apostle3 ,we which are  
alive1 and remain unto the coming of the
 ,lord4  ,the ,apostle said that for his
 generation4  ,he said it not under his 
own mistaken idea as the ,chicago       
department of sacred literature would   
suggest1 but under the inspiration of   
the ,holy ,spirit of the ,holy ,god4    
,paul as a mere man might make mistakes 
just as the modern theological professor
 not infrequently does4  ,the ,holy     
,spirit speaking through ,paul could not
 make a mistake ,himself1 neither could 
it be possible for ,paul under the      

direction of the ,holy ,spirit to make a
 mistake4  ,paul was led by the ,holy   
,spirit to believe it possible the ,son 
of ,god might come in his day4  ,what   
,paul under inspiration said for his    
generation1 he said for our generation4 
,he said it for you and for me4         
,because no man knows the hour when the 
,lord will come it might be in your hour
 and my hour4  ,the ,master ,himself    
said3  ,you know not what hour your     
,lord doth come4  ,who is he who will   
have the hardihood to fix the hour when 
the ,master has said no man knows8  ,who
 is he who will put a thousand years    
between the ,church and her returning   
,lord8  ,where is the difference between
 a thousand years' delay and one moment 
that can be fixed by any man8  ,if the  
,lord says you do not know the hour and 
necessarily do not know the minute of   
the hour1 if you fix a minute between us
 and the ,coming you deny the words of  
the ,son of ,god ,himself that the      
minute and the hour are unknown4  ,who  

is he who has it all fixed and polished 
and pumice stoned to the exact date8    
,the ,lord has said no man on earth     
knows1 not an angel in heaven knows4 ,he
 ,himself took the place of a servant   
and by the exercise of ,his omnipotent  
will residing in ,his eternal and       
unchanged personality as ,son of ,god   
and ,god the ,son1 shut out the         
knowledge of it from ,his humanity1 from
 ,himself as man1 and said ,he did not  
know when ,he should come4  ,admit that 
a revelation has since been given to    
,him as a man or that ,he has taken the 
ban off ,his human side ,himself and    
that ,he knows when ,he will come for   
the ,church and the exact hour of ,his  
appearing in glory2 admit this if you   
like and for the sake of argument       
7although there is not the slightest    
shade of a shadow of evidence for such  
an argument7 it still remains that no   
such revelation has ever been given to  
the ,church2 neither has the restriction
 of the ,son of ,god to ,his disciples  

been removed4 ,you remember what ,he    
said just before ,he ascended6  ,this is
 what ,he said3  ,it is not for you to  
know the times or the seasons1 which the
 ,father hath put in his own power4     
,that this restriction was for the      
,church is the declaration of the       
,apostle4 ,this is what he said to the  
,church at ,thessalonica3  ,of the times
 and the seasons1 brethren1 ye have no  
need that ,i write unto you4  ,why had  
he no need to write to them8  ,because  
the day of the ,lord1 he said1 should   
come as a thief1 and as that day is     
introduced by the ,coming of the ,lord  
for ,his ,church1 then ,his coming for  
the ,church was1 as ,he ,himself        
afterwards declared in his letter to    
,sardis1 like the coming of a thief4    
,this ,coming ,paul had described in the
 fourth chapter of his first letter to  
the ,thessalonians4  ,it was not for the
 ,church to know in ,paul's day when the
 ,lord should come as the bridegroom for
 ,his bride4  ,no revelation has been   

given in any epistle to the ,church     
since4 ,what was true in ,paul's day as 
to the attitude of the ,church is true  
in this day4 ,listen to the commended   
attitude of the ,thessalonian ,church3  
,ye turned to ,god from idols1 to serve 
the living and true ,god2 and to wait   
for his ,son from heaven4  ,there you   
have it4  ,the ,church is to wait2 that 
means to watch1 to expect1 to be ready4 
,this is what the ,apostle said4  ,this 
is what the ,son of ,god ,himself said  
and still says to-day4  ,he affirms we  
do not know the hour4  ,he exhorts us to
 watch4  ,the affirmation and the       
exhortation hold for this hour4  ,if    
therefore the ,son of ,god be not       
incarnate falsehood2 if ,he seek not to 
play with my heart and make me a        
spectacle to the lost souls of the pit  
as well as to the mockers among men--,he
 means what ,he said4  ,if ,he meant    
what ,he said1 then ,he means that any  
day1 and any hour of the day so far as  
,i know ,i may meet ,him at any turn of 

the road4  ,and what would that mean if 
,he should come to-night or to-morrow8  
,i have told you what it would mean to  
me4  ,what would it mean to you1 to some
 of you who have so much invested in    
,laurel ,hill1 in that white and        
beautiful city of the dead1 by the banks
 of your winding river8  ,when ,i was a 
boy my father took me there and ,i      
watched as the winds rippled through the
 long grasses1 and ,i could hear the    
wash of the river below1 ,i was startled
 and sometimes shivered as ,i walked    
under the shadow of tall monuments1     
carved figures1 and by stately tombs of 
marble4 ,and once ,i started back and   
broke into tears at the sight of the    
sculptured form of ,old ,mortality      
bending above a slab with chisel and    
mallet in hand--and ,i suppose is there 
still1 grown older in his stony face    
because more stained with the passing   
years4  ,what would it mean to you whose
 loved ones are lying in that cemetery  
or any other of the sleeping places of  

the dead8  ,ah6 it would mean the       
home-coming1 the greeting1 the rapturous
 kiss and hand-clasp of recognition1 the
 joy of that heaven life that shall know
 no end and that immortality that shall 
compensate for all the weariness and the
 heartache of the mortal path here      
below4  ,yes6 it would mean to those of 
us who by faith in ,christ ,jesus are   
children of the living ,god1 the        
gathering to our arms again of those who
 have left us and for whom our arms     
still ache to enfold them once more4    
,and ,o my soul6 it would mean the      
seeing of ,him whom our soul loveth and 
who unfailingly has loved us2 it would  
mean that boon of boons--seeing ,him    
face to face4  ,do you wonder the ,holy 
,spirit who is the finger of ,god has   
written over against the word hope1 that
 qualification1 blessed1 and affixed to 
it the demonstrative1 that1 so it doth  
read3 ,that blessed hope8  ,and yet6 and
 yet6 there are men who call themselves 
the ministers of ,christ who would blot 

out that hope and take away the vision  
of it from our souls4  ,with cold1      
acute1 metallic voices in which you may 
hear the sound of the wheels of         
machinery and the buzz of business1 they
 tell us that should the ,lord suddenly 
come it would paralyze all industry1 put
 an end to commerce and to trade1       
overthrow all progress1 make worthless  
every high endeavour for the betterment 
of man1 shut the doors of school1 of    
college and university1 render useless  
the architect's and builder's plans1    
throw down the mechanic's tools1 the    
artist's brush1 the sculptor's chisel1  
the writer's pen1 still the orator's    
tongue1 make null and void the          
legislator's high emprise and draw a    
line of atrophy across the unfolding    
processes of human life4  ,oh1 foolish1 
blind and slow to believe1 do you not   
see that if the ,lord should come it    
would lift our so-called civilization   
out of the slime and shame of its brazen
 folly and reeking1 though perfumed sin 

into the glory of eternal righteousness 
and peace8  ,do you not see that it     
would1 at last1 make men immortal and   
give them such beauty of form1 such     
sanity and such culture and worth of    
being as all the gymnasia and all the   
eugenics of the hour have failed and    
will ever fail to achieve8  ,do you not 
see that if the ,lord should suddenly   
come it would at once open the gates of 
knowledge and bring us face to face with
 the secrets of the universe and make us
 masters under ,god of all natural laws 
such as all the curriculae of all the   
institutions of learning1 of applied    
science and philosophy have failed to   
impart8  ,do you not see it would be the
 fulfillment of the highest ideals and  
aspirations and would make man what the 
creator of heaven and earth originally  
intended man should be--not an animal   
working with tools and breaking his     
heart in vain finally to achieve--but a 
very ,god who should speak and it should
 be done1 command and it should stand   

fast2 and who should be the incarnate   
revelation1 the eternal enthronement of 
the invisible ,god1 in power1 in        
character and holiness8  ,do you not see
 it would change this old earth from the
 swinging cemetery of the dead into the 
home of deathless men1 the home of the  
eternal and worth-while life8  ,oh1     
listen to me all who hear me6  ,the hope
 for this world of daily toil and tears1
 of graves and unceasing tragedy1 of    
pitiful woe1 is not that slow creeping  
thing called evolution1 wallowing on its
 serpentine belly amid the dust of death
 and the crime and sin of unchanged and 
unchangeable human nature--but ,god     
,himself--,god in ,christ1 the personal 
,coming of ,him who is the maker of     
heaven and earth1 coming to bring in the
 new dawn1 the new day1 the new earth   
and the new empire of ,god and man4     
,oh1 tell me those of you who have been 
redeemed by blood1 regenerated by the   
,spirit1 made partakers of the divine   
nature1 turned heavenward by the power  

of ,god1 who see cloudless daylight in  
the ,bible1 even in the darkness of a   
spiritual night1 hear music in its      
promises and whose souls are filled with
 love to ,god and love to man1 tell me  
would you like ,him to come1 would you  
like to see your ,lord face to face8    
,oh1 you who have had the vision of ,his
 cross behold it1 ,i beseech you1 there6
  ,the head crowned with thorns1 the    
nailed hands1 the nailed feet1 the      
pierced side1 the blood pouring out of  
those hands1 gliding round ,his body1   
weaving itself in its sinuous course    
over the white flesh into a robe of     
crimson1 and then streaming out into a  
fringe of intense scarlet as it drops1  
drop by drop to the thirsty ground1     
dripping1 dripping there4 ,oh1 ,i can   
see it and ,i seem to feel the warm     
touch of it1 the strange1 the wonderful 
cleansing touch of it1 the only thing   
that can make a blackened sinner white2 
and as it drops each drop seems to say  
till it turns to very music in the soul3

  ,though your sins be as scarlet1 they 
shall be white as snow2 though they be  
red like crimson1 they shall be as wool4
  ,listen to the dropping of that blood 
out of the heart of ,god1 every drop the
 price current of the merchant1 the half
 shekel of the sanctuary1 the purchase  
price of your redemption and mine and   
the seal of infinite love1 of           
measureless grace4  ,oh1 tell me would  
you like ,him to come1 transfigure you  
into the beauty of ,his likeness and put
 the benediction of ,his peace upon this
 old sin-smitten1 tear-stained earth8   
,do you ever pray the last prayer       
recorded in ,holy ,scripture1 the last  
prayer of the ,holy ,apostolic ,church8 
,listen to it6 ,listen to it well6      
,amen4 ,even so1 come1 ,lord ,jesus4    
,is this prayer in your heart8  ,does it
 ever come to your lips8  ,do you ever  
genuinely and openly offer it1 wishing  
with all your heart it might be so1     
might be answered in your time2 or1 have
 you forgotten it like the ,church at   

large8  ,do you feel ashamed or afraid  
to offer it in public8  ,when you try to
 offer it in private or public does     
unbelief smother it8  ,i once heard a   
boy say to his mother3  ,o mother1 don't
 do so much for me2 love me more4  ,i   
tell you the truth whether you hear or  
forbear3 as preachers and teachers many 
of you are doing too much for the ,lord4
 ,you are busy1 morning1 noon and night 
in ,his name1 running here and there1   
tinkering religiously and morally1      
putting things together and increasingly
 active2 so busy doing for the ,lord    
that like ,martha you have no time to   
sit still at ,his feet as did ,mary and 
hear ,his ,word1 hear what ,he has to   
say to you2 so busy doing for ,him that 
you are losing sight of ,himself4 ,this 
was the somewhat ,he had against the    
,ephesian ,church4  ,that ,church was   
full of works and labours4 ,they had    
tested false doctrines and false        
teachers4 ,they stood squarely for      
fundamentals and were theologically     

sound2 but they had left their first    
love1 love to ,himself1 love to ,his    
person1 devotion to ,his person1 a      
flaming1 outbreaking1 overflowing       
enthusiasm for a personal1 a realistic  
,saviour and ,lord4 ,they were taken up 
with what they were doing for ,him      
rather than with ,himself4 ,they had got
 away from the loving1 impelling touch  
and contact with ,himself4  ,the        
personal touch with ,christ6  ,that is  
what ,he wants from us4 ,not so much    
what we are doing for ,him1 but what ,he
 is to us personally4 ,he wants to be   
the first and the last1 the chiefest    
among ten thousands and the one         
altogether lovely4 ,this is the         
definition of true and efficient        
,christianity --personal devotion to a  
living and loving ,saviour4  ,looking   
down from heaven ,he is saying to us1 no
 matter how much we may be doing for    
,him1 ,he is saying this to us3  ,love  
me more4  ,and until there is this      
flaming1 burning1 out-flowing enthusiasm

 for and devotion to a personal ,lord1  
to ,him for what ,he is as well as for  
what ,he has done for us1 there can be  
no sweeping1 wide1 resultant revival and
 ingathering of the elect of ,god4 ,you 
may plan and organize and get together1 
you will have only a flame that will    
flare for a time and then go out4  ,nay6
 only when we are on fire for ,him can  
we make the hearts of men to burn with  
the faith that shall turn them to ,him  
and make them hate and forsake whatever 
does not honour and glorify ,him4  ,over
 all the noise and rush of things1 and  
all the machinery well motived men      
sometimes set going in ,his name ,he is 
saying3  ,love me more6 love me more6   
,when some one you love with this       
intense personal love is absent you are 
not satisfied till that absent one      
returns1 fills your vision and responds 
to the touch of your greeting and your  
love4  ,if you love the very person of  
the ,son of ,god2 if you have a         
quivering1 all-pervading enthusiasm for 

,him so that ,he is1 indeed1 above all  
personalities in the universe to you1   
you will want ,him to return where you  
may look upon ,him--not as ,thomas did  
for doubt's sake and stumbling hope's   
sake--but for the very joy of it until  
the print of the nails in ,his hand and 
the print of the nails in ,his feet     
shall be to you as the apocalypse of    
,his glory and the illumination of your 
soul4  ,do you really want ,him to      
come--this long absent ,redeemer and    
,lord8  ,he is listening to hear whether
 you want ,him to come2 whether above   
every plan and scheme you may have been 
building in ,his name2 above any        
religious1 even spiritual ambition you  
may have1 you want ,him to come         
for--,himself4  ,he is very still4 ,he  
is listening to hear whether you will   
say that one little word that has in it 
such vibrant meaning1 that one word3    
,come4  ,the ,church as a ,church has   
long ago ceased to say--,come4  ,but the
 old prayer is still written here in the

 closing page of ,holy ,scripture3      
,amen4 ,even so1 ,come1 ,lord ,jesus4   
,are you willing to-night to put your   
faith and your heart into that old      
prayer and bid ,him come8  ,have you the
 faith and sincerity to do it8  ,you    
say1 ,yes4  ,then rise to your feet as  
one person and say that prayer as ,i    
line it out to you until it shall roll  
upward like a wave on the infinite shore
 and break on our ,lord's listening ears
 with the music of love's unfailing     
appeal3  ,,amen4 ,,even ,,so1 ,,come1   
,,lord ,,jesus4    ,in response to ,dr4 
,haldeman the great audience filling the
 building from pit to dome rose to its  
feet as in a flash and repeated the     
prayer as he gave it out4 ,it was a     
moving sight and full of impression as  
the mighty volume of united voices rose 
and swelled upward to that throne where 
our ,lord sits as ,bridegroom as well as
 ,king and yearns in these days to hear 
,his true ,bride in all the wonder of   
her spiritual beauty and the strength of

 her essential unity say--,come4        
,printed in the ,united ,states of      
,america